[off-topic] Special printing program needed

[Jim Householder]

On 06/11/12 09:50, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Jim Householder <nofixed at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>> I would like to be able to print a long document (book, actually) with
>> minimal handling for binding and paper used.  I want double-sided 4-up
>> printing with the pages placed and oriented so that I can fold the A4 paper
>> in quarters, cut the creases, and have the pages in correct order.
>>
>> Is there such a beastie?
>
> pstops (from psutils) will do what you want, but with PostScript
> files.  May require a bit of juggling to get the right options, but it
> works well.
>
> Of course, it's likely that your document is in PDF format.  pdftops
> (from poppler-utils, formerly xpdf-utils) may work for you.
>
>
Thanks.  It looks like I will need a bit of testing to get it right.  If 
I can retain focus long enough, it looks like a good opportunity to 
write a front end to generate the pstops command line options.