Keith_Beef
April 9th, 2013, 11:49 PM
I couldn't find a better section for this than "Art and design", but page layout could be considered document design, so here's my problem.
I'm trying to print booklets with sixteen A7 pages on an A4 sheet of paper; I want to then fold the paper and staple or stitch it and then slit the outer folds.
Here are the steps I took.
I made the A7 page layout in Open Office, laid out the text and printed to a sixteen page A7 document.
For now, I'm just working on the first page of what will be the final A4 document to send to the printer.
I used pdftk to:
burst the document into sixteen individual PDF files named pg_00[01-16].pdf.
rotate the following pages 90° clockwise: 1, 4, 13, 16.
rotate the following pages 90° anticlockwise: 5, 8, 9, 12.
Now I want to assemble these into a single A4 document again, but preserving the rotations I just gave to the A7 pages now in landscape orientation.
p9 p16
p8 p1
p5 p4
p12 p13
I tried concatenating them together (this gives me a sixteen page landscape A7 document), then pdfnup to make these pages fit on an A4 sheet.
The resulting file is an A4 document with all my eight A7 pages on it arranged in two columns of four, ready for printing, except for one big problem… whatever options I pass to pdfnup, the A7 pages are always rotated back to their original upright orientation! I have tried passing --turn false, tried printing in landscape, nothing seems to preserve the rotations 90° clockwise or anticlockwise that the pages had when they were one long sixteen pages of A7.
Am I missing something glaringly obvious?
I'm trying to print booklets with sixteen A7 pages on an A4 sheet of paper; I want to then fold the paper and staple or stitch it and then slit the outer folds.
Here are the steps I took.
I made the A7 page layout in Open Office, laid out the text and printed to a sixteen page A7 document.
For now, I'm just working on the first page of what will be the final A4 document to send to the printer.
I used pdftk to:
burst the document into sixteen individual PDF files named pg_00[01-16].pdf.
rotate the following pages 90° clockwise: 1, 4, 13, 16.
rotate the following pages 90° anticlockwise: 5, 8, 9, 12.
Now I want to assemble these into a single A4 document again, but preserving the rotations I just gave to the A7 pages now in landscape orientation.
p9 p16
p8 p1
p5 p4
p12 p13
I tried concatenating them together (this gives me a sixteen page landscape A7 document), then pdfnup to make these pages fit on an A4 sheet.
The resulting file is an A4 document with all my eight A7 pages on it arranged in two columns of four, ready for printing, except for one big problem… whatever options I pass to pdfnup, the A7 pages are always rotated back to their original upright orientation! I have tried passing --turn false, tried printing in landscape, nothing seems to preserve the rotations 90° clockwise or anticlockwise that the pages had when they were one long sixteen pages of A7.
Am I missing something glaringly obvious?