Re: my favorite bug :-)

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2015-05-04 15:40, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> On 5/4/15 1:35 AM, "ArnoldTheresius" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > 2. the PS file, because it's used for another postprocessing: I generate a
> > booklet layout PDF from it (this PDF uses the double sheet size, e.g. A3)
>
> How do you do this?  This is something I'm very interested in, but I've
> been doing it from the generated PDF, rather than from the PS.  This has
> the effect of messing up the margins a bit, so I'd like to try the PS to
> PDF conversion.

Did you try pdfbook (brochure-generation wrapper for pdfjam, which again 
is a commandline frontend for LaTeX's pdfpages):

  pdfbook --paper a3paper --noautoscale true -o output-a3.pdf input-a4.pdf

Of course, there's a bunch of other options; check `pdfjam -h`.


HTH,
Alexander