>|I have looked at the pdftk link. It seems like it could >|be useful for many purposes, but I did not see the key >|item for booklet-making, namely making new, double-size >|pages from two side-by-side single pages. Am I missing >|something?
There's a script in the pdfjam package in TeXLive which uses pdfpages to do n-up formating. But it doesn't seem to be available in MiKTeX. You could use pdfpages directly: This package simplifies the inclusion of external multipage PDF documents in LaTeX documents. Pages may be freely selected and similar to psnup it is possible to put several logical pages onto each sheet of paper. pdfpages is available in MiKTeX. Bob >| >|--Don >| >|> -----Original Message----- >|> From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Bob >|> Tennent >|> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 6:30 PM >|> To: Werner Icking Music Archive >|> Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Strange page orientation with pstops >|> >|> >|I have always done imposition at the dvi level by using >|a sequence >|of >|> ancient DOS programs dviselec (to create a >|separate dvi file for each >|> page), dviconca (to combine >|pairs of pages into single dvi's), dvidvi >|(to >|> make a >|single big page with two side-by-side normal pages), >|and >|finally >|> dviconca again to combine all of the big >|pages into a single file. I >|did this >|> rather than with .ps >|because when I started ~15 years ago, I couldn't >|get >|> the >|.ps-manipulation programs to work. So anyhow, I thought >|I >|would >|> try my old method on Olivier's file. But none of >|those programs would >|run >|> under Win7 on my new laptop (!), >|because according to a pop-up >|they're >|> incompatible with >|the 64 bit version of the OS. I've so far been >|completely >|> >|unsuccessful with any of the Microsoft "Compatibility >|>|Administrator" >|> tools or other Googled hacks. So I may >|need to learn how to do >|this at >|the >|> postscript level with >|pstops and maybe ps2pdf (although I could >|probably >|> print >|the big pages directly from the postscript). >|> >|> I think all these operations can be done on PDFs using pdftk. >|> >|> https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ >|> >|> It can be used to >|> >|> * Merge PDF Documents >|> * Split PDF Pages into a New Document >|> * Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required) >|> * Encrypt Output as Desired >|> * Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages >|> * Report on PDF Metrics, including Metadata and Bookmarks >|> * Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams >|> * Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible) >|> >|> Bob T. >|> ------------------------------- >|> TeX-music@tug.org mailing list >|> If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to >|> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music >| >|------------------------------- >|TeX-music@tug.org mailing list >|If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to >|http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music >| ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
