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* [https://iffybooks.net/wp-content/uploads/zines/Iffy_Books_pdfbook2_screen.pdf Iffybooks zine on pdfbook2] | |||
* Example of an impositioned PDF for booklet printing: [[:File:Wiki-wiki-book.pdf]] | * Example of an impositioned PDF for booklet printing: [[:File:Wiki-wiki-book.pdf]] | ||
* [https://gitlab.com/yanntrividic/the-moral-of-the-xerox-vf/-/blob/main/make_booklet.sh make_booklet.sh], by Yann Trividic | * [https://gitlab.com/yanntrividic/the-moral-of-the-xerox-vf/-/blob/main/make_booklet.sh make_booklet.sh], by Yann Trividic | ||
Revision as of 13:02, 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!
Imposition tools
- 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)
- 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/
Examples, scripts & boilerplates
- Iffybooks zine on pdfbook2
- Example of an impositioned PDF for booklet printing: File:Wiki-wiki-book.pdf
- make_booklet.sh, by Yann Trividic
- Bookletor, by Quentin Juhel
- Paged.js imposition "extension", by Quentin Juhel and Julien Taquet; see also this live example made by Julien Bidoret
- Imposition howto's during SI5 (using Imagemagick)
- How to make a booklet with psutils (at Scribus wiki)
- Scribus wiki: How to make impositions with pstops
- Making booklets from PDF files using psbook and psnup
- Two A4 on one A3 using pdfjam
- http://zineopolis.blogspot.com/p/h.html
- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Zine_Making/Putting_pages_together