Thanks for the responses. Peter Chubb suggested that I was shrinking the scores twice which was something I had begun to suspect. I changed the 'A4' to 'A3' in my script and my PDF viewer shows something a bit different from what I was getting before. I'll have an opportunity to try printing it tomorrow. Using the pdfjam commands Peter sent produced very odd results at my end. Maybe there was something missing or something implied which I missed. Thanks for the GUI tip from Raphael Mankin, but I'd rather have a script do this. Alexander Kobel's point about pdfjam is also good to know.
Thank you all. If I haven't fixed it with your suggestions I'll try again. David > From: "bobroff" <bobr...@centrum.is> > To: "Lillypond Users Mailing List" <lilypond-user@gnu.org> > Sent: Sunday, February 9, 2025 9:44:55 PM > Subject: [OT] PDF manipulation mystery > I have a PDF which consists of 16 small scores in A4 landscape. I want to > print > them in a signature booklet, 2up (top/bottom) on two sheets of A3 paper, > duplex, of course. After some experimentation I found a sequence of PDF > manipulation commands which appeared to do exactly what I wanted. I wrapped > them up in a bash script (cygwin). The script is as follows: > #!/bin/bash > # Use: input PDF filename w/o '.pdf' followed by number of logical pages > # set filename to be the input (do not include extension) > filename=$1.pdf > # rotate all pages 90ยบ to the right > pdftk $1.pdf cat 1-endeast output $1-out.pdf > # stack rotated pages top/bottom > pdfjam $1-out.pdf --nup 1x2 --paper A4 --suffix 2up > # re-collate into book signature > pdfjam $1-out-2up.pdf --signature $2 --paper a3 --landscape --outfile > $1-sig.pdf > # remove intermediate files > rm $1-out.* $1-out-2up.* > It *appears* to work perfectly. The final output looks fine on my PDF viewer > (Sumatra). When printed out, however, the scores themselves are undersize. > They > should be sized for A5 with four on one side of each A3 sheet and four on the > other. This is what I get, but they appear to be sized for A6 paper. I want to > emphasize that the only thing wrong is the printed size of the scores > themselves. > Does anyone know how to fix this? > TIA > David
