Page Layout ⇒ Generating mirror-image pages

[sierra1bravo]

Hi
I have a fairly complex LaTeX document, intended for printing at a press. The press would like all pages in the output document to be mirror images of the original pages for the highest quality of output.

Is there some way to mirror all pages of a LaTeX file (or its output PDF) ?

thanks


s.b.

[fatra2]

Hi there,

Not being an expert in press related topics, could you give me more details on what you mean by mirror page? Do you want to have the same text on the forth and the back of the page? Do you want to have the headers/footers placed so that the page number is always on the outside/inside of the page? Any additional information would be helpful, like the document class you are using. The different packages used that you might find important for your document.

With a bit more help, I believe we can help you find a suitable solution. Cheers

[localghost]

[...] I have a fairly complex LaTeX document, intended for printing at a press. The press would like all pages in the output document to be mirror images of the original pages for the highest quality of output.

Is there some way to mirror all pages of a LaTeX file (or its output PDF) ? [...]

There are two possible solutions. The easier one is to use the crop package with the mirror option.

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\usepackage[mirror]{crop}

Details are given in the manual of the package. Another approach could be the conversion of the document from DVI to PS with a special header file.

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dvips -h mirr.hd document.dvi

In case that your final output format is PDF, this solution has the disadvantage that you have to compile your source with latex and after conversion to PS you need another step to get PDF.


Best regards
Thorsten

[sierra1bravo]

Hi there,

Not being an expert in press related topics, could you give me more details on what you mean by mirror page? Do you want to have the same text on the forth and the back of the page? Do you want to have the headers/footers placed so that the page number is always on the outside/inside of the page? Any additional information would be helpful, like the document class you are using. The different packages used that you might find important for your document.

With a bit more help, I believe we can help you find a suitable solution. Cheers

Thanks for your response. What I meant was that the content in each page should be 'reflected' as would be seen in a mirror. I'm not sure why the press should want it thus.

In any case, the solution provided below by Thorsten (the first one) does this in a beautifully simple manner.

best

s.b.