[nylug-talk] Two-up printing

[Chris Knadle]

On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> Many moons ago, I read somewhere (maybe on this list?) of a way to print a
> document such that two pages are rendered side-by-side on one side of
> paper in landscape mode. Combining this with two-sided printing would
> save a lot of trees for large documents so I was wondering if anyone
> remembered the "trick" to do this? Was it done with Ghostscript?
>
> Naturally, Im interested in FOSS solutions primarily.

   I know at least in KDE 3.5 under the print dialog "properties" button you 
can choose a different number of "pages per sheet", I.E. 1-up, 2-up, 4-up, 
which is why I like printing PDFs from KPDF (KGhostView and any other KDE app 
could do the same thing).  Gnome seems to have a similar "Pages per side" 
setting in the "Page Setup" tab of at least some print dialogs, so for 
instance the Evince document viewer and the GIMP can do this too.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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