Hi,
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, James Harrison wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2008, at 3:19 AM, Roussanka Loukanova wrote:
>
>>> As an alternative, how about the following? I did it in Preview, but
>>> it would probably also work in Skim if you used Page Setup and then
>>> Print.
>>
>> Is there some way, perhaps similar to this, to get every two (four,
>> etc.)
>> pages of a file.pdf printed on single pages of a 2up-file.pdf
>> (4up-file.pdf, etc), typically useful for handouts.
>
> I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Of course, you can print multiple
> pages of a PDF onto single pages of paper (or of a file) using Layout
> in the Print dialog to choose how many pages you want to print onto
> one page and the pattern in which they should print.
Thanks a lot: I hadn't known until now about these options. What
you suggested works in both, Preview and Skim, with a difference, not in
favor of Preview:
By having a file.pdf opened
- in Preview:
(1)
Print... > layout (the 3rd pull-down menu) > Pages per Sheet > 4
> Paper Handling > check Scale to fit paper size: > uncheck Scale
down only
Then Preview or Save as PDF
I get 4 pages per Sheet in the new pdf file. So far so good. But if I do
this with a pdf file, which is a presentation latexed with beamer styles,
then the original small pages (128mm x 96mm) are still small, despite that
I checked Scale to fit paper size. In order to get the 4 pages scaled up
properly, I had to do:
(2)
File > Page Setup > Scale (200%)
- in Skim, I didn't need to Scale up, by (2). Just (1) did the job and the
output seems scaled up a little bit more than 200%: as far as I can see
this by comparing the corresponding 4up pdfs on the screen. Just i have no
printer around right now.
Thanks again!
Roussanka
> If you want to
> print a "facing pages" display multiple times to a page, you can't do
> that directly unless there's a specialized piece of software designed
> for that task. The closest you could come with Preview or Skim would
> be to use Layout in the Print dialog to lay out two pages to a
> landscape-oriented page in the Print dialog, which would be similar to
> a "facing pages" view, and print that to a PDF. Then open that PDF and
> use the print layout again to print it as many times as you wanted on
> a page.
>
> Jim Harrison
> UVa
>
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