On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:56:51 +0200 Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> dijo:
> what you need is either Multivalent PDF tools: > http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/index.html or pdftk: > http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ Christoph and Frank, Thanks for the responses, but neither Multivalent PDF tools nor pdftk will do what I need to do. I also tried a couple other things that I found in the Ubuntu repositories, but all the tools seem to be designed just for creating signatures, which is not what I need. I also cannot figure out what Frank's script does, let alone how to modify it. I am not a programmer and this job has to be done in a week, so I don't have time to learn programming. And anyway, I am not outputting from Scribus. I am not the one doing the layout and design work. The designer is going to supply me with a 200 page PDF file, so I need to create a new PDF file from an existing PDF file. God knows, this would probably be a lot easier if I were doing the design and layout work. For this job I am just the printer. I think I did not make clear what the problem is. I need to place each page twice on a landscape sheet: front |----------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |----------------------------------------------------------| back |----------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |----------------------------------------------------------| The purpose is to print two books at the same time. After printing, the books are cut apart with the guillotine before binding. All the tools I can find will print n-up, but cannot place one page more than one time. They are designed to do this: front |----------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |----------------------------------------------------------| back |----------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |----------------------------------------------------------| The second example is what most people think of when they think of "imposition." Perhaps what I need is not called "imposition." I am not creating signatures. I am just saving paper by printing two copies of a book at the same time, one copy on each side of the sheet. InDesign comes with scripts that will place individual pages of a PDF file on pages in the InDesign document. You can specify where on the page to place the PDF pages. So you run the script the first time, telling it to place the pages on the left side of a landscape sheet. Then you run the script a second time telling it to place the pages on the right side of the sheet. Then you export to a new PDF file and you're done. It works, but if I can find a tool that will do it directly from PDF file to PDF file it would be even faster and simpler. In this case at least I don't have to deal with color and screens. All the artwork is vector and the document is being printed in black and white.
