On 09/02/2005, at 3:59 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
In these days of "manual-free" I find I often want to print hard copy
of PDF Users Guides. Acrobat Standard allows me to double side by
printing the odd numbered pages first then the even ones. Many such
documents, however, are over generously set out with large print sizes
and lots of space which is fine for on screen but very wasteful for
printing. In many cases printing successive A4 pages side by side
with the paper turned to landscape gives a nice printout. But how do
I double side these pages. Essentially I need to make a new document
which pairs the portrait pages in Acrobat as single landscape pages
prior to printing.
Nowhere can I find how to do this fairly obvious procedure.
Advice welcomed!
Severin Crisp
What you are talking about is imposition software. You should check out
BookLightning at <http://www.metaobject.com>. It is shareware, but it's
not expensive and it will do what you want. Just drop your PDF file
onto the BookLightning icon and a correctly-imposed version is created
almost instantly (it's incredibly fast!). BookLightning also allows you
to install a couple of PDF Services, "Print Book" and "Make Book",
which make the process even easier.
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