[nylug-talk] Two-up printing

Michael R. Head burner at suppressingfire.org
Wed Mar 12 15:07:42 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 10:44 -0400, 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.

The latest GNOME release has a common print dialog that provides this
functionality in a Page Setup tab.

And yeah, psnup is how I used to do it. Also, the pdfjam package (which
has a pdfnup) can do it.

mike
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