Thanks, Luigi. It's interesting to know about pdfposter (and poster) but it looks like it solves a different problem than imposition. I think pdfposter lets you enlarge a single-page PDF by breaking it into a number of separate sheets that you can print and then tape together. Poster does the same for a single-page postscript file.
My problem is to start with individual pages, merge them 2 at a time into larger pages (without scaling) that I can still print one at a time, but that are arranged so I can make a booklet by printing the larger (2-up) pages double-sided. As I said in an earlier post, David Allsop's suggestion to use Acrobat on the PDF file works perfectly and very easily for making booklets. --Don >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Luigi Cataldi >Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:16 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Imposition > >Maybe I haven't understand well the problem, but I think something like pdfposter >could help. The address is > >http://pdfposter.origo.ethz.ch/ > >Regards > >Luigi > > > >On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:07:54 -0700 >Don Simons <[email protected]> wrote: > >> By imposition I mean converting a file defining a set of letter-size >> (8.5 by >> 11 in) pages into one defining a set of ledger size pages (17 by 11), >> each one containing two letter sized ones, and arranged in such a way >> that I can print the ledger sheets 2-sided to make a booklet. Over the >> years I've developed a scheme that does this at the dvi level, using a >> combination of the ancient programs dviselec, dviconca, and dvidvi. It >> usually works but sometimes fails. When it fails, it still allows me >> to create a ledger sized postscript from the final dvi (using dvips), >> but when viewing the postscript in gsview, at some page after the >> first gsview tells me I have bad postscript and refuses to go on. I'm >> fairly sure the problem has to do with the postscript specials >> required by type K slurs, and I tried to remedy it (long ago) with a >> PMX option to insert psslurs.pro into the postscript at the start of every page, but >even that doesn't always solve the problem. >> >> I know there is supposed to be an similar set of programs that let you >> do imposition at the postscript level (psbook, etc). I've tried those >> too, but was never successful in getting acceptable control over the >> size and position of the component page images. >> >> I'd be very interested to hear how others have approached this task. >> It seems that it would be an issue in many other TeX applications >> beyond MusiXTeX , and I'd expect there to be some number of folks out >> there who have addressed it and have it under control. >> >> --Don Simons >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> [email protected] mailing list >> If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > > >-- >Luigi Cataldi <[email protected]> >------------------------------- >[email protected] mailing list >If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to >http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
