[plug] Printing documents 2 pages to a side

Russell Steicke r.steicke at bom.gov.au
Fri Oct 25 18:26:37 WST 2002


On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:20:12PM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:11:09PM +0800, 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. 
> 
> Use psnup from psutils-1.17-13.i386.rpm.  Or for a more general and much
> more complicated solution, try pstops from the same package.

Oops, I forgot about the pdf->ps step.  I normally use xpdf, and print
to a file from there to get PostScript.


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Russell Steicke

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