a5booklet (1)
NAME
a5booklet - copy two A5 pages from a .dvi file to one A4 page in another.SYNOPSIS
a5booklet file[.dvi]DESCRIPTION
A5booklet
is a little script that allows you to typeset two A5 pages next to
eachother on a single A4 page (landscape), combining pages from
the original file in such a way that after double sided printing and
some reshuffeling of the pages you get a nice a5 booklet that is ready
for a staple in the middle.
The script calls a very clever program
dvidvi,
written by Tomas Rokicki (the author of
dvips),
that does the real work.
The output is written to two files,
file-1.dvi
and
file-2.dvi
Pr int the first file, using the command
dvips -ta4 -tlandscape file-1
then put the stack upside doen in the printer, and print the second file using
dvips -ta4 -tlandscape file-2
Make sure that the bottom of the A5-pages is on the correct side of
the paper when you put the stack back for printing the back side.
After the two print jobs, you must re-shuffle the paper stack before
you can staple it.
SEE ALSO
tex(1), dvips(1), dvidvi(1).
BUGS
The script has A4 papersize hardwired into it. Admittedly, a
European-centered way of thinking.
Page number 1 is always the first page in the original .dvi file, not
the page numbered 1 by TeX's numbering scheme.