[pdftex] producing a5 booklets from a4

[Kester Clegg]

Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> writes:

[...]

> >When I run that command (texexec --pdfarr --paper=A5A4
> >--print=up) on a pdf document here, the a5 booklet has the cover
> >correct, the second page positioned identically to the first, which is
> >wrong for a book. The third is correct and so on.  That means the left
> >hand and right hand margins are the *wrong way round* on the second
> >page.  Facing pages should mirror their margin spacing (placing the
> >mirror along the binding), so that the space either side of the binding
> >is always equal.  At the moment, it's unequal which is unattractive and
> >like no professionally produced book on earth!
> 
> hm, but is your original typeset as doublesided book? it's up to your
> macro package to produce the mirrored margins, isn't it? since the
> postprocessor has no knowlegde about the page layout.
> 

No, as I said.  I want something that does what psbook & psnup can do.
>From the man page 

DESCRIPTION 
        Psbook rearranges pages from a PostScript document into
        ``signatures'' for printing books or booklets, creating a new
        PostScript file. 

It rearranges pages from an existing ps document, I don't think whether
it's double-sided makes any difference - unless the problem is with our
printer's duplex function?  But I don't think so.  I had hoped texexec
was doing the rearranging in a similar fashion for existing pdf
documents, but it appears it doesn't, or doesn't quite.


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