Become A Pdf A4 An A5 BookTuesday 14th of December 2010 03:13:56 PM
Let's see how to convert a pdf document in A4 format in a book in A5 format with the order of pages to print it.
We will need to install the psutils package, we will provide the command psbook we will need later.
sudo aptitude install psutils
First step is to convert our paper in pdf format ps.
pdftops nuestro_libro.pdf
This will give us a new file called nuestro_libro.ps
The second step is to convert the generated file A4 to A5 pages placed in the correct order.
psbook nuestro_libro.pdf.ps | psnup - pa4 - 2 > nuestro_libro_A5.ps
Return us a file called nuestro_libro_A5.ps
And finally alone we have converted this file to pdf.
ps2pdf nuestro_libro_A5.ps nuestro_libro_A5.pdf
It is you just print it and read it quietly