[FM Discuss] booklet printing

[Luka Frelih]

On 11. 11. 2010 16:24, adam hyde wrote:
> hey
>
> if you use CUPS (linux printer drivers) with psbook installed, then this
> will produce 2 a5 on an a4 sheet for duplex printing which is
> theoretically good for cutting and binding:
> pdftops Desktop/bookiuserguide-en-2010.11.10-16.51.04.pdf - | psbook |
> lpr -o number-up=2 -o sides=two-sided-long-edge
>
> except that the second page is always upside down. as i understand it
> the long-edge should solve this but im having wonky driver issues i
> think, either that or the orientation is forcing the wrong type of
> duplex printing...hmmm
>
>
> adam
>
>
>    
from http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/psbook.html

/Psbook/ rearranges pages from a PostScript document into ``signatures'' 
for printing books or booklets, creating a new PostScript file. The 
input PostScript file should follow the Adobe Document Structuring 
Conventions.

The -s option selects the size of signature which will be used. The 
signature size is the number of sides which will be folded and bound 
together; the number given should be a multiple of four. The default is 
to use one signature for the whole file. Extra blank sides will be added 
if the file does not contain a multiple of four pages.

Psbook normally prints the page numbers of the pages rearranged; the -q 
option suppresses this.

perhaps try psbook -s4 ?
also, can you look at the output of psbook in a previewer to see if it's 
that or the lpr duplex option that flips things upside down

LF

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