Imposition pdf export

[Frank]

Take a look at the OOo features, as I do this sort of thing from time to 
time, and discovered that I could print A5 booklets and that OOo sorted 
out the page numbers and all.

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Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Michael Killian wrote:
>   
>> G'day all,
>>
>> To introduce myself, I am Michael, and am a linux user since a year.
>> Now I have one problem: there is an urge for me to use expensive
>> programs like Quark, but actually only for one feature: imposition. To
>> print and combine pages of a print job, so that when printed,
>> (eventually cut) and folded, all the pages fall into place into a
>> little booklet. I have heard there is the ability to export to pdf in
>> kdeprint, and was wondering if 'booklet-imposition' is included in
>> that as well, and if not, if it is possible to include it in the
>> future? I have no idea how difficult it is to combine and change the
>> order of pages in a pdf document, but I imagine it can't be that hard,
>> as you don't have to change any content.
>>
>> For example: If I have a booklet of 16 (A5) pages, to print them in
>> this order on A4 paper:
>>
>> [ 1+16]
>> [ 3+14]
>> [ 5+12]
>> [ 7+10]
>>
>> and then the backside (for duplex printing in a one-side printer):
>>
>> [ 2+15]
>> [ 4+13]
>> [ 6+11]
>> [ 8+  9]
>>
>> And maybe options for signatures (combined booklets) for book
>> printing... it would sooooo cooooool!!!
>>
>> Anyway, hope to hear from you.
>> Cheers, Michael
>>     
>
> Hi, Michael,
>
> for sophisticated and random impositioning, there would be a separate
> application needed (but this is not in sight in KDE).
>
> However, I think you can do what you want (pamphlet layouting and
> printing) with current KDEPrint tools.
>
> I've just not time now to write up a detailled step-by-step howto  -- 
> instead I point you to a few bug reports in KDE's bugzilla (some of
> which I closed some months ago after explaining to the reporters how
> he could do what they needed):
>
>    http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2630
>    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97669
>    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143342
>    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107936
>
> Look at the "WhatsThis?"-help hints in kprinter when you opened the
> "Properties" dialog for a printer. Go to the rightmost tab, called
> "Filter". Select "Pamphlet Printing". You can also set the "signature".
> This acts as a "pre-filter", and is applied by KDEPrint to the job
> before it is going towards CUPS.
>  
>
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