Today I got the need to print a manual in pdf format downloaded from the internet, and realized that printing all pages in A4 format was too paper and size expensive. So I decided to opt for a multipage layout, but until today I always printed the pages in sequential order, and this time I needed a to create
a double-sided two-page paginated spread.
This can be easily done with opensource psutils package, and lets you print multiple-page documents such as booklets and pamphlets.
the command simply is
$ pdf2ps $input - | psbook | psnup -2 | ps2pdf14 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 - $output
where
$input is the file with the pages in sequential order, and
$output the printable PDF generated.
