Imposition: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:06, 5 April 2025

An example of an imposition of a PDF, in this case to print a PDF in a booklet format. Screenshot from https://pdfcpu.io/generate/booklet.

There are many ways to do imposition!

Manual way: CTRL+P, write the order of printing in the field "Pages"
psutil (Python)
pdfbook2 (CLI, part of the texlive-extra-utils in Debian, and in Mac: $ brew install --cask mactex)
pdfjam (CLI, part of the texlive-extra-utils in Debian)
pdfxup (CLI, part of the texlive-extra-utils in Debian)
podofo + documentation from 75 (CLI)
BookletImposer (GUI)
jPDF Tweak (GUI)
pdfcpu (CLI)
Imagemagick (CLI; using montage, convert)
https://zine-machine.glitch.me/

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 * Manual way: CTRL+P, write the order of printing in the field "Pages"
 * [https://psutil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ psutil] (Python)
-* [https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/texlive-extra-utils/pdfbook2.1.en.html pdfbook2] (CLI, part of the [https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/texlive-extra-utils/ texlive-extra-utils] in Debian, <code>$ brew install --cask mactex</code>)
+* [https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/texlive-extra-utils/pdfbook2.1.en.html pdfbook2] (CLI, part of the [https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/texlive-extra-utils/ texlive-extra-utils] in Debian, and in Mac: <code>$ brew install --cask mactex</code>)
 * [https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/texlive-extra-utils/pdfjam.1.en.html pdfjam] (CLI, part of the [https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/texlive-extra-utils/ texlive-extra-utils] in Debian)
 * [https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/texlive-extra-utils/pdfxup.1.en.html pdfxup] (CLI, part of the [https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/texlive-extra-utils/ texlive-extra-utils] in Debian)