[pdftex] producing a5 booklets from a4

[Kester Clegg]

Hi

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
pages are placed too far over to the righthand edge, the binding edge.
Thus on opening a booklet, the typeset pages are unequally placed with
regard to the centre binding.  Is there a cure for this, and why does it
happen?  Translating the files to ps and using an oldfashioned pipe like 

psbook|psnup -2l
 
produces the same result.  latex produced ps works fine with the tools.
Are there any pdf utilities that can help me produce properly formatted
a5 booklets from a4 pdf?


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Kester Clegg                Dept. of Computer Science,
Research Associate (UTC)    University of York, UK

Tel (01904) 43 33 75        email: kester at cs.york.ac.uk
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