I was dealing with a very similar situation recently. I wanted to find out how to make an A5 sized booklet and print it myself on A4 paper.
There is a very small program (probably just a GS wrapper) called 'pdfbook' which allows you to rearrange the pages in a PDF. With the right options I was able to re-order the pages and assign two A5's to one A4 page. This left me with an almost usable file. With a second pass on this output with 'pdftk' I re-shuffled the pages so that I could print the first half of the book, then take those pages and put then through the printer again and print the other pages. This was then ready for folding/stapling. It should be quite easy the prepare your PDF in this fashion prior to taking it to the print shop. Hope this helps, David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Federico Bruni" <fedel...@gmail.com> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 7:03:06 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: printing A4 pages on A3 paper Hi, in a print shop I was told that they couldn't directly print my A4 .pdf to A3 paper - using Adobe Reader - because in the pdf "pages are linked two by two" (I guess they meant to say "twoside"). So they had to first print on A4 sheets and then use them to print on A3 paper. Frankly speaking, I'm quite sure they are wrong and the problem is not my pdf settings. I compiled the book using the "Publish" button of Frescobaldi (lilypond -dno-point-and-click) and \paper does not contain anything that changes default paper settings. Anyway, I missed an argument to reply to them :) Can you give me a piece of advice? I just want to be sure that my pdf is ok and understand why the shop failed to print directly to A3. Thanks, Federico _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
