On Thu 26 Oct 2017 at 15:03:33 (-0700), Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > I'm looking for a way to create the pdfs necessary > > for doing the booklet layout. > > > Thanks for all the suggestions. > > Mogens, I didn't realize that some of this could be done from a print > dialog. > For easy patterns this seems like a nice short path. > > David, I think that your approach is most in line with the production > process I'd like. Thanks especially for your order-computing functions! > > Peter, I will also look at pdfbook to see how it compares to pdftk and > whether that is more appropriate to incorporate.
One reason I avoided pdfbook was because of handling the output paper size, but if you work in one locale with appropriate /etc/papersize and ~/.pdfjam.conf etc, then there should be no problem. (I produce output destined for the UK as well as here so I prefer explicit calls of pdfjam. Currently I have 27 functions calling pdfjam in my ~/.bashrc) pdftk is a great tool which I'm using all the time. It's great for compiling/collating, but I don't think it can composite, which is what you want for exploiting a large-format printer. I use it almost entirely in filter mode, using temporary directories/files, because I'm too lazy to learn how to use its "handles" for multiple input sources. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
