[pdftex] producing a5 booklets from a4

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:39 AM 10/8/2002 +0100, Kester Clegg wrote:
>Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk at ptb.de> writes:
>
> > > I product a5 booklets from pdflatex produced a4 pdf using texexec
> > > utility, e.g.
> > > texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 --print=up
> > > However, this does not achieve the correct typesetting of the page
> > > layout in a book format, in the way psbook used to.  That is, left-hand
>
>[...]
>
> > > Are there any pdf utilities that can help me produce properly formatted
> > > a5 booklets from a4 pdf?
> >
> > 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.

what exactly is the problem?

the minimal file "itsname.tex":

   % output=pdftex

   \setuppapersize[A5][A5]

   \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte\page} \stoptext

processed by

   texexec itsname

and postprocessed by

   texexec --pdfarr --paper=A5A4 --print=up itsname

produces a booklet here

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