Re: 2 pages in a A3 landscape paper

[Federico Bruni]

Il 05/01/2010 16:21, Reinhold Kainhofer ha scritto:
> Am Dienstag, 5. Januar 2010 16:11:01 schrieb Federico Bruni:
> > How can I tell LilyPond to print two pages in a A3 landscape paper?
> > In the attached example, I'd like to have 2 pages instead of 4.
>
> That's not lilypond's job, but your printer driver's or your PDF viewer's. (Or
> altenatively you can post-process the PDF by using pdfnup on Linux)

Thanks Reinhold, pdfnup does the job pretty easily.
This is the command I've used:

pdfnup book.pdf --nup 2x1 --paper a3-paper --orient landscape 
--outfile bookA3.pdf


Before you mentioned pdfnup, I had tried to work with .ps files but 
I'd never managed to get a decent result.

I took the basic idea from this page:
http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2009-October/035580.html

(three utilities involved: psbook, psnup and ps2pdf)
... too much to study ;-) .. but I'll try again when I have time..

There's any disadvantage in postprocessing a .pdf (instead of working 
on .ps)?
I mean, quality can be reduced?
It does not seem the case looking at the screen, but if there's any 
drawback please let me know.

Cheers,
Federico
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