Re: printing A4 pages on A3 paper

[address@hidden]

I was dealing with a very similar situation recently.  I wanted to find out how 
to make an A5 sized booklet and print it myself on A4 paper.

There is a very small program (probably just a GS wrapper) called 'pdfbook' 
which allows you to rearrange the pages in a PDF.  With the right options I was 
able to re-order the pages and assign two A5's to one A4 page.  This left me 
with an almost usable file.  With a second pass on this output with 'pdftk' I 
re-shuffled the pages so that I could print the first half of the book, then 
take those pages and put then through the printer again and print the other 
pages.  This was then ready for folding/stapling.  It should be quite easy the 
prepare your PDF in this fashion prior to taking it to the print shop.

Hope this helps,

David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Federico Bruni" <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 7:03:06 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: printing A4 pages on A3 paper

Hi,

in a print shop I was told that they couldn't directly print my A4 .pdf
to A3 paper - using Adobe Reader - because in the pdf "pages are linked
two by two" (I guess they meant to say "twoside").

So they had to first print on A4 sheets and then use them to print on A3
paper.

Frankly speaking, I'm quite sure they are wrong and the problem is not
my pdf settings.
I compiled the book using the "Publish" button of Frescobaldi (lilypond
-dno-point-and-click) and \paper does not contain anything that changes
default paper settings.

Anyway, I missed an argument to reply to them :)
Can you give me a piece of advice?

I just want to be sure that my pdf is ok and understand why the shop
failed to print directly to A3.

Thanks,
Federico


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