[pdftex] producing a5 booklets from a4

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:39:57AM +0100, Kester Clegg wrote:

> Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk at ptb.de> writes:
> 
> > Have a look at the LaTeX package `pdfpages'...
> 
> Thanks Rolf for the suggestion, however, that involves me creating a new
> document to process an existing document?  I don't want to have to do
> that (or even write a script to do that) each time someone sends me a
> pdf document - I'm looking for something that will produce correct
> signatures like psbook and like the whole psutils suite, is an external
> utility.

You have to write such a "pdftex" program based on pdfpages once only.
The filename can be stored in a macro, eg.:
  pdflatex '\def\filename{...}\input mypdftex'
and mypdftex contains the macros for resorting the pages.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>