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This repository contains all design files; mostly Scribus files.
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Figure out how to make automatic print-versions #1

Open alifeee opened 3 weeks ago

alifeee commented 3 weeks ago

This script turns a PDF into a booklet (by rearranging the pages)

https://github.com/chongchonghe/booklet-creator

To turn that re-arranged PDF into a printable PDF, it may be easiest to do it manually

Searching the web...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4087029/merging-two-a5-pages-into-a-singe-a4-page-without-using-pdfnup

https://superuser.com/questions/246092/how-to-convert-a-1-page-pdf-to-a-2-page-per-sheet-pdf

sudo apt-get install texlive-extra-utils
pdfxup pdfs/0028lawa.pdf.booklet.pdf -l 1 -m 0 -fw 0

this is terrible

https://askubuntu.com/questions/214538/printing-in-booklet-format

sudo apt-get install texlive-extra-utils
pdfbook2 pdfs/0028lawa.pdf -s -o0 -i0 -t0 -b0

this is terrible also

https://pypi.org/project/pdfnup3/ - this looked promising but is very out of date

alifeee commented 3 weeks ago

for current instructions see https://github.com/lipu-tenpo/selo?tab=readme-ov-file#printable-versions