I have looked at the pdftk link. It seems like it could be useful for many purposes, but I did not see the key item for booklet-making, namely making new, double-size pages from two side-by-side single pages. Am I missing something?
--Don > -----Original Message----- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Bob > Tennent > Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 6:30 PM > To: Werner Icking Music Archive > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Strange page orientation with pstops > > >|I have always done imposition at the dvi level by using >|a sequence of > ancient DOS programs dviselec (to create a >|separate dvi file for each > page), dviconca (to combine >|pairs of pages into single dvi's), dvidvi (to > make a >|single big page with two side-by-side normal pages), >|and finally > dviconca again to combine all of the big >|pages into a single file. I did this > rather than with .ps >|because when I started ~15 years ago, I couldn't get > the >|.ps-manipulation programs to work. So anyhow, I thought >|I would > try my old method on Olivier's file. But none of >|those programs would run > under Win7 on my new laptop (!), >|because according to a pop-up they're > incompatible with >|the 64 bit version of the OS. I've so far been completely > >|unsuccessful with any of the Microsoft "Compatibility >|Administrator" > tools or other Googled hacks. So I may >|need to learn how to do this at the > postscript level with >|pstops and maybe ps2pdf (although I could probably > print >|the big pages directly from the postscript). > > I think all these operations can be done on PDFs using pdftk. > > https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ > > It can be used to > > * Merge PDF Documents > * Split PDF Pages into a New Document > * Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required) > * Encrypt Output as Desired > * Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages > * Report on PDF Metrics, including Metadata and Bookmarks > * Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams > * Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible) > > Bob T. > ------------------------------- > TeX-music@tug.org mailing list > If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
