[Fwd: Re: insert blanc first page with page-turn-breaking]

[Alexander Kobel]

Uh, wanted to give this to the list, too.

Besides, you might want to change the first page number:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Page-formatting#Other-layout-variables

(Not sure whether this is done automatically; I never had to use this
feature so far...)
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> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:29:09 +0200
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> Toine Schreurs wrote:
> > The page-turn-breaking does a marvellous job. If necessary, the output
> > starts at page 2. 
> > Is it possible to insert a blanc first page in that case?
> > I want to print the results with a duplex printer, and without
> > the first blanc page, all page turns turn out to be wrong.
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> > Toine Schreurs
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> As far as I know there is no option offered by LilyPond to do so, but
> you might want to look at pdftk: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
> You need a document with a blank page in the size of your sheets
> (OpenOffice is your friend), then run
>         pdftk blank.pdf <music.pdf> cat output <music-with-blank.pdf>
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> Besides, you can also extract parts of PDFs, for example to manually
> duplex and want to split your document in odd and even pages, or edit
> the meta tags of the file. It's just a great tool.
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> HTH
> Alexander
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