>|I have always done imposition at the dvi level by using >|a sequence of ancient DOS programs dviselec (to create a >|separate dvi file for each page), dviconca (to combine >|pairs of pages into single dvi's), dvidvi (to make a >|single big page with two side-by-side normal pages), >|and finally dviconca again to combine all of the big >|pages into a single file. I did this rather than with .ps >|because when I started ~15 years ago, I couldn't get the >|.ps-manipulation programs to work. So anyhow, I thought >|I would try my old method on Olivier's file. But none of >|those programs would run under Win7 on my new laptop (!), >|because according to a pop-up they're incompatible with >|the 64 bit version of the OS. I've so far been completely >|unsuccessful with any of the Microsoft "Compatibility >|Administrator" tools or other Googled hacks. So I may >|need to learn how to do this at the postscript level with >|pstops and maybe ps2pdf (although I could probably print >|the big pages directly from the postscript).
I think all these operations can be done on PDFs using pdftk. https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ It can be used to * Merge PDF Documents * Split PDF Pages into a New Document * Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required) * Encrypt Output as Desired * Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages * Report on PDF Metrics, including Metadata and Bookmarks * Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams * Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible) Bob T. ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
