[solved] Re: Print two pages per sheet, one side

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:42:51 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> I wish to print a large pdf document two pages per A4 sheet one side
> only, but:
> 
> 1) I want that the text size is not reduced, since I checked it is small
>    enough to fit in the sheet the size it is;
> 
> 2) I want to print it first into another pdf file before sending it to a
>    printer.
> 
> Is it possible to achieve that, and how?


Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqvist@gmail.com> writes:

> I needed this recently, and I believe the answer at
> <http://superuser.com/questions/158780/tile-an-a6-pdf-so-that-it-fits-into-a4-perfectly>
> was the hint I needed.


Great.  What a wondeful tool to rebuild a pdf file the way you want.  All I had
to do was: `apt-get install pdfjam' (pdflatex is already installed on my
system); then I got what I wanted with:

 $ pdfnup --nup 2x1 --paper a4paper --noautoscale true --delta "1cm 0cm" --pages 13-20 --outfile output.pdf ~/input.pdf

The option `--noautoscale' set to the value `true' avoided the reduction, which
is what I wanted.

But now, suppose instead that, for another job, I wish to scale it at my
pleasure: is it not possible?

Thanks
Rodolfo