[scribus] (OT, sort of) Imposing PDF 2-up

Peter Nermander peter at nermander.se
Thu Apr 28 09:11:22 UTC 2011


> I also have command line tools for manipulating PDF and PS files, but I
> cannot figure out how to do the above kind of imposition. I know I have
> done this in the past, but it was a long time ago on a Windows
> computer. I'm sure it can be done on Linux with PDF command line
> utilities, but I don't even know which one to try, let alone the
> syntax. I might even be able to do it with lpr, but I'd still need to
> figure out the syntax, and the lpr man page doesn't help here.

With multivalent you can probably just use the -nup option, otherwise
you chose -layout 1,1,2,2.

You might have to set the output page size to landscape format using
the -paper option.

http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/pdf/Impose.html

/Peter



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