[pdftex] PSUtils equivalent for pdftex output. (fwd)

[Tigran Aivazian]

oops, I misspelled "tug" as "tux" in the email address :)

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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 23:45:17 +0100 (BST)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran at aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
To: John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>
Cc: pdftex at tux.org
Subject: Re: [pdftex] PSUtils equivalent for pdftex output. (fwd)

Hi John,

Here is the reply from Andreas. I am forwarding because it didn't show up
on pdftex.

Kind regards
Tigran

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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:20:37 +0200
From: Andreas Matthias <amat at kabsi.at>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran at aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: pdftex at tug.org
Subject: Re: [pdftex] PSUtils equivalent for pdftex output.

Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, John Culleton wrote:

>> The only glitch I see (and it is a trivial one) is that for 
>> a booklet I need to count the number of output pages and 
>> then specify the next higher power of four as the signature 
>> size.  Booklets are single signature beasts. 

The new beta version of pdfpages has a `booklet' option which
does exactly what you desire. Download the beta from here:

<http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9225580/pdfpages-v0.3f-beta.tar.bz2>


>> There is still the problem of dividing the even sides from 
>> the odds, which currently I do with psselect. My printer 
>> doesn't duplex so I use "barnyard" duplexing by printing 
>> the odd sheets in reverse order, flipping them over, 
>> reinserting them in the bypass tray and printing the even 
>> sheets, again in reverse order if I use the bypass feed. 
> 
> Yes I understand. Strange, I thought pdfpages can handle including only
> odd or only even pages but looking at the manual I can't see any way to
> specify this using pages= option (and no special options for this). I cc'd
> Andreas Matthias --- maybe he can consider adding a way to include only
> odd or only even pages from the PDF files, since there is clearly demand 
> for this feature.

If you are using pdfpages as a kind of postprocessing, usually
it should be sufficient to use pagesel to select odd or even
pages:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage[odd]{pagesel}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages=-, booklet, landscape]{dummy.pdf}
\end{document}

Ciao
Andreas

ps: Tigran, I have cc this mail to the pdftex mailinglist, but
I am no longer subscribed to this list. So if this mail doesn't
show up there, could you please forward it. Thanks.