Printing A4 Pdf to A5 landscape Pdf for ebook
Patrice Dargenton
in order to zoom each A4 page on 2 smaller A5 pages in landscape, without
having to reflow the pdf file (a very difficult task) : I tried a lot of
combinations without success : the destination page is never rotated from
source page.
Thanks for help.
P.S.: I am using CutePdf to print the pdf into another pdf.
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Peter Flynn
> Hello, is it possible to print an A4 Pdf to an A5 landscape Pdf for ebook,
> in order to zoom each A4 page on 2 smaller A5 pages in landscape, without
> having to reflow the pdf file (a very difficult task) : I tried a lot of
> combinations without success : the destination page is never rotated from
> source page.
> Thanks for help.
> P.S.: I am using CutePdf to print the pdf into another pdf.
I convert with pdf2ps and use psnup, then convert back with ps2pdf.
///Peter
Patrice Dargenton
Pdf2Ps doesn't exist for Windows (can't find it), but I found psnup with
PSUtils for Windows : for the moment I did not find to good way to do the
trick. Does I really need Pdf2Ps to rotate before changing the size, or can
psnup both rotate and resize the page ?
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Peter Flynn
> Thank you.
> Pdf2Ps doesn't exist for Windows (can't find it),
pdf2ps is just a shell script to drive GhostScript. GhostScript for
Windows is available from
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/GPL/gpl871.htm (scroll down).
The command to use is
C:\My Documents\> gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite
"-sOutputFile=BBB" -c save pop -f "AAA"
(all on one line, where AAA is the name of your input PDF file and BBB
is the name of the .ps file you want to create).
> but I found psnup with PSUtils for Windows : for the moment I did not
> find to good way to do the trick. Does I really need Pdf2Ps to rotate
> before changing the size, or can psnup both rotate and resize the
> page ?
You need pdf2ps to create the PostScript file. psnup does all the
rotation and placement. You also need pdf2ps to convert the result back
to PDF. Again, this is just a script: the command is
C:\My Documents\> gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
"-sOutputFile=BBB" "AAA"
where AAA is now your manipulated .ps output file from psnup, and BBB is
the PDF file you want to create (best not to overwrite the original ;-)
But seriously, if you need to do a lot of this stuff, Windows is the
wrong platform to use.
///Peter
Patrice Dargenton
Patrice.
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SaGS
wrote:
> Hello, is it possible to print an A4 Pdf to an A5 landscape Pdf for ebook,
> in order to zoom each A4 page on 2 smaller A5 pages in landscape, without
> having to reflow the pdf file (a very difficult task) : I tried a lot of
> combinations without success : the destination page is never rotated from
> source page.
I don’t quite understand exactly what are you trying to do.
Maybe:
(A)
Split each A4 portrait page in 2 halves, top and bottom, and print
each half on an A5 landscape page? (But then, why zoom it?)
Or maybe:
(B)
Scale down the A4 portrait pages to fit on A5, print 2+2 PDF pages
recto+verso on landscape A4 paper, then fold the paper to obtain a
brochure?
If it’s (B), then decently recent versions of Adobe Reader (at least 7
and later) have this option. Under ‘File’/ ‘Print...’ there’s a ‘Page
Scaling : Booklet Printing’ that does exactly that: scales down,
reorders as necessary, rotates, and prints pages ‘2-up’. If your
printer cannot do duplex automatically, you can do manual duplex using
‘Booklet subset : Front side only/ Back side only’.