Working with PDF Documents
From Digital Tibetan
Contents
Transforming PDF Documents for Printing
Tools
Linux: LinuxFormatPrinter (requires paket Mono)
Windows: WindowsFormatPrinter (requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2 or Mono for Windows)
Creating A5 booklets
- Create a PDF document with a page size that is a multiple of four. (Add empty pages if necessary: in Linux use <pdfjoin>, in Windows use PDFill to join empty pages)
- Use either the Windows (download WindowsFormatPrinter above) or the Linux version (download LinuxFormatPrinter) to calculate the page reordering sequence for booklet creation: Enter the number of pages (multiple of four) of the original PDF document, select 'A5 booklet' and 'Calculate'.
- The next step depends on the operating system you are using:
Windows
Use PDFill (free), option xxx
Linux
Install the pdfjam
package. It contains a command-line tool pdfnup. Use a terminal to execute a command similar to (all in one line):
pdfnup original.pdf --pages 41,1,2,41,41,3,4,41,40,5,6,39,38,7,8,37,36,9,10,35,34, 11,12,33,32,13,14,31,30,15,16,29,28,17,18,27,26,19,20,25,24,21,22,23 --nup 2x1 --orient landscape --outfile booklet.pdf
(Of course replace the pages string with the page numbers you generated above with the FormatPrinter tool)
This creates a booklet.pdf
from original.pdf
. booklet.pdf
can be printed directly. Use short-edge binding double-sided printing.