[plug] Multi page pdf printing on a single large page

[Adam Davin]

Hello All, 

On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:25:04 +0800
"Arie Hol" <arie99 at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> On 8 Jun 2008 at 17:49, Tim Bowden wrote:
> 
> > I've got a multi-page pdf where the page size is about 5cm x 5cm.
> > I'm wanting to print multiple pages on the one A4 sheet.  I'm sure
> > I've seen a solution before, but for the life of me I can't recall
> > what it was. 
> Anyone
> > able to help?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Tim Bowden
> > -- 
> 
> If you have a copy of Adobe Reader (Linux Version) you should be able
> to tell it how many pages to print to one page - if I recall
> correctly you can select - 1, 2, 4, 6, 9 and 16 pages per page (under
> "Page Scaling") from the printer dialogue which comes up when you
> click on the Adobe reader print command button.

I may be off track here but are you after the -o number-up=? option? 

Specifying a number here will print that many pages to one page. 

eg lp -s -dMyPrinter -o number-up=4

to print 4 pages per page.

Regards, 

-- 

Adam Davin
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