Am Freitag, den 05.06.2009, 09:35 +0200 schrieb Andreas Delmelle:
> On 05 Jun 2009, at 09:20, Manuel Mall wrote:
>
> Hi Raphael, Manuel,
>
> > Many printer drivers can do this sort of manipulation for you, e.g.
> > 2 up printing. Or you could use a 'virtual' printer driver like the
> > one from FinePrint.
>
> Another option would be to render the document to the Intermediate
> Format first, and then manipulate it to get the N-up effect.
> see: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/intermediate.html
>
> As of FOP Trunk, a new IF has been introduced, but the old one is
> still supported.
> see: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/intermediate.html
>
> The format of Area Tree XML itself is, however, undocumented. I
> suggest that you have a look, and post back specific questions here.
> Normally you should be able to pull this off by applying a stylesheet
> transformation on the IF XML where multiple pages are combined into
> one. I've never done this myself, but maybe another user already tried
> this (?)
>
> Basic idea is to use the same FO, generate an IF file, render the
> original IF for regular output, create a copy of the IF, manipulate
> it, and render that for the handouts.
>
>
> HTH!
>
> Andreas
An easy solution if you are working on *nix-System is to use pdfnup from
the pdfjam suite:
http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam
For Debain/Ubuntu just it's just a
sudo apt-get install pdfjam
away.
Cheers,
Johannes
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