> START OF COMMANDLINE > according to my reading of the documentation: java -classpath > Multivalent20040415.jar tool.pdf.Impose -dim 2x2 -verbose -paper 22x17 > in -layout > '20r,1l,21r,40l,12r,9l,29r,32l,18r,3l,23r,38l,16r,5l,25r,36l,10r,11l,31r,30l,2r,19l,39r,22l,6r,15l,35r,26l,4r,17l,37r,24l,13t,28l,8l,44l,27r,14l,34r,7l' > black.pdf > END OF COMMANDLINE > > Sadly, it crashes with the highly informative error message "null". > Yes, that's all it says. It's not just the PDF from Scribus that says > "null"; I've tried it with other pdf's and shorter commandlines and > everything that I can think of. "null".
Did this with your command using A5s to A2s. http://koti.welho.com/rleino/test.pdf is my original pdf and http://koti.welho.com/rleino/test-up.pdf is the one created by Multivalent with the commands below: export CLASSPATH=/home/tsoots/Multivalent.jar java tool.pdf.Impose -dim 2x2 -verbose -paper A2 in -layout 20r,1l,21r,40l,12r,9l,29r,32l,18r,3l,23r,38l,16r,5l,25r,36l,10r,11l,31r,30l, 2r,19l,39r,22l,6r,15l,35r,26l,4r,17l,37r,24l,13t,28l,8l,44l,27r,14l,34r,7l test.pdf With big pdf files I noticed it had some problems with memory. You could try if this helps: java -Xmx256M -classpath Multi... I'm using Sun's jre 1.5 (or 5.0 however it should be called)
