I have a PDF which consists of 16 small scores in A4 landscape. I want to print them in a signature booklet, 2up (top/bottom) on two sheets of A3 paper, duplex, of course. After some experimentation I found a sequence of PDF manipulation commands which appeared to do exactly what I wanted. I wrapped them up in a bash script (cygwin). The script is as follows:
#!/bin/bash # Use: input PDF filename w/o '.pdf' followed by number of logical pages # set filename to be the input (do not include extension) filename=$1.pdf # rotate all pages 90ยบ to the right pdftk $1.pdf cat 1-endeast output $1-out.pdf # stack rotated pages top/bottom pdfjam $1-out.pdf --nup 1x2 --paper A4 --suffix 2up # re-collate into book signature pdfjam $1-out-2up.pdf --signature $2 --paper a3 --landscape --outfile $1-sig.pdf # remove intermediate files rm $1-out.* $1-out-2up.* It *appears* to work perfectly. The final output looks fine on my PDF viewer (Sumatra). When printed out, however, the scores themselves are undersize. They should be sized for A5 with four on one side of each A3 sheet and four on the other. This is what I get, but they appear to be sized for A6 paper. I want to emphasize that the only thing wrong is the printed size of the scores themselves. Does anyone know how to fix this? TIA David
