User:Ssstephen/SI192print

Attempting to print SI19 in a small addition.

Prepping from scans to print ready PDF

I have 18 PDFs with severals A4 scans in each. They need to be combined, rotated, cut into A5 pages, and put in the correct order.

Then they need to be combined into folios and printed.

Without Adobe? pdftk and pdfimpose might be able to do this together.

pdftk <input.pdf> cat 1-endeast output <output.pdf>

combined yes, rotated kinda,

pdftk A=<input1.pdf> B=<input2.pdf> cat A1-3 B1-2 A4-end output <output.pdf>

missing pages

pdfcrop --margins "0 0 -420.72 0" combinedA4-f.pdf A5left.pdf

cropping to half the original size (use pdftk input.pdf dump_data to find the document size).

pdftk A=A5left.pdf B=A5right.pdf shuffle A B output A5-a.pdf

Recombining left and right documents into a single PDF by shuffling.

pdftk A5-b.pdf shuffle A B output A5-a.pdf

Then add in the extra pages to make it fit the folios (5 x 36 = 180). Then break the doc into 5. Then impose each folio seperately.

Think about paper direction, think about margins. After folding you can measure the depth of the book block.

Aglaia bought paper, we need to cut to size for the printer, print on it, cut 3 sides and do one fold so it's ready to bind.

Thread bound and staple bound.