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A5BOOKLET

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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

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.

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.

AUTHOR

A5booklet is written by David A. van Leeuwen (david@ElseWare.cistron.nl), but is is not original in any way. The main two lines that do the work are inspired from the man page of dvidvi . A5booklet is available under the conditions of the Gnu Public Licence.