General ⇒ 4 pages in one sheet

[tonguim]

Hi all,

does anyone knows how to print in .pdf, 4 pages in one sheet, from my .tex document? Thank you.

[php1ic]

Do you want 4 pages in 1 as the output from latex, or do you want 4in1 for the final pdf in any possible way?

If you are running on linux there are a few ways to do this, psnup or a2ps and ps2pdf should do what you want.

[fatra2]

Hi there,

does anyone knows how to print in .pdf,

There is something I don't get from your question. Do you want to print or make a portable document format? Because printing is normally done on paper, and then you would need to setup the printer options to get 4 pages in 1.

Cheers

[frabjous]

If you want to create a PDF that puts four pages from an original PDF onto a single page of the new PDF, using pdflatex, you can use the pdfpages package (read its documentation: it should be obvious).

If you want just to take a normal PDF and print it that way, this has more to do with your software and printer capabilities, not LaTeX.

[kostoglotov]

Hi mate,
I went through the package you recommended above and.. have another question. I have a simple text (an invitation) and I would like to generate a final pdf file where would be a four pages on one sheet. Basically 4 leaflets, format A5 on one sheet of A4 paper (easy to print out and cut..). I want to generate it from LaTeX directly - not from an external pdf file. Any Idea how to do that? I can do the invitation but was wondering if there is any command I can use to multiply what has been written and put it on one sheet with possibility do define margins, space between those 4 pages, etc.? Would be great....
Cheers
ak

[frabjous]

Why can't you use pdfpages? There's no rule saying that the pdf you include can't itself also have been created in LaTeX. Seems like the easiest to me.

All four are exactly the same? I guess you could define a command containing the text of the invitation and use that command inside of four minipages, but the above route seems simpler to me.

[kostoglotov]

Hi mate,
yeah all pages are same.. Just want to have four leaflets on one page with some little cut marks in between them...
Ok, I'll try to do it from single pdf files.
Cheers mate!
ak