Printing a booklet
Jos�
I have a PDF file.. There are 20 PDF pages and they are shown as if they
are scanned from a book. Each PDF page shows two book pages:
- 1
2 , 3
4 , 5
6 , 7
etc
I want to print this so I can restore the original book, which means:
40 , 1
2 , 39
38 , 3
4 , 37
Can this be done?
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Jos�
Lutrin
> Dear friends
[...]
> I want to print this so I can restore the original book, which means:
> 40 , 1
> 2 , 39
> 38 , 3
> [.....]
> 4 , 37
>
> Can this be done?
[...]
oh yes, a simpliest way is using
*pdfbklt*
- http://simurl.com/riwsis
in windows and in Linux (via wine)
syntax:
pdfbklt -l -b A4 -p2s input.pdf
PLEASE!!! take in mind that pdfbklt will overwrite your source pdf so it
is better operate with a copy of your pdf so you can eventually do a
second try
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Mike S.
In article <pan.2009.09.30.16.56.21@lutrina>,
Lutrin <eli...@olympo.it> wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:19:48 +0200, José ci disse:
>
>> Dear friends
>[...]
>> I want to print this so I can restore the original book, which means:
>> 40 , 1
>> 2 , 39
>> 38 , 3
>> [.....]
>> 4 , 37
>>
>> Can this be done?
>[...]
>
>oh yes, a simpliest way is using
>
>*pdfbklt*
>- http://simurl.com/riwsis
>
>in windows and in Linux (via wine)
>
>syntax:
>
>pdfbklt -l -b A4 -p2s input.pdf
>
>PLEASE!!! take in mind that pdfbklt will overwrite your source pdf so it
>is better operate with a copy of your pdf so you can eventually do a
>second try
Just tried this on a Win32 platform and it works quite well except ...
I was a bit suspicious of the fact that it processed a huge document
almost instantaneously. I knew there would be payback somewhere, and then
I found it.
The printing times were astronomical - so much so that I gave up and let
the printer driver do the n-up formatting instead. I assume the output of
pdfbklt is such that the PDF interpreter does all the work.