[plug] Printing documents 2 pages to a side

[Sacha Schlegel]

Hi David

# pdf to postscript
pdf2ps inputfile.pdf outputfile.ps

# 2 pages per sheet
mpage -2 outputfile.ps > out.ps

# if you dont have a duplex printer

# get all even pages
psselect -e out.ps even.ps

# get all odd pages
psselect -o out.ps odd.ps

# print even pages
lpr even.ps

#shaffle printed pages (maybe a test run before you start 200 pages)
# print odd pages
lpr odd.ps


with mpage you have some options like 

-l Toggle portrait/landscape
-2, -4, -8 Pages per sheet
-b papersize

Good luck.

Sacha

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 18:11, David Buddrige wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I want to print out a large document (a pdf file), but I want to save some 
> paper. 
> 
> Therefore, I want to print out my document with two pages on each side of 
> the
> paper, so, if I print double-sided, there should be 4 pages on a single 
> sheet
> of paper.  The A4 pages should come out A5 sized and arranged so that the
> document is read in landscape format. 
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this?  I am using Redhat 7.2 
> 
> thanks heaps guys 
> 
> David. 
> 
>