Page Layout ⇒ Two pages on one.

[krz]

Hi everybody,
I have to prepare some book to print. First time in my life. And I decided to use LaTex. It was three days ago and now I can't sleep. I love LaTex and hate it in the same time. But nevermind. I have a lot of problems with it but now I can't sleep because of layout. I need to prepare pdf document with landscape orientation and with to pages on one. Just a text in two columns but each column with its own page number. Two pages, to headers, two footer on one sheet.
I hope I described it clear (sorry, english isn't my native language).
Can you help me?
K.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi krz,

welcome to the board!
I would prepare the LaTeX document like usual, on single pages with a two-sided layout. Finally I would use pdfpages or pdfjam or pdfnup to get two pages on one.

Stefan

[krz]

Thanks, Stefan!
I'm so impressed you answer so fast. I realy hope I stay on the board for a long time.
By the way, do you know if that programs prepare pdf to print in printing house? I mean that special order (propably 1st page with 8th on one sheet, 2nd with 7th, 3th with 6th etc. etc.).
Krzysztof

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Those programms support such requirements, like the tool pdfbook (see the pdfjam link above) and the signature option of pdfpages. Pages would be rearranged, two sided printed on one. See page 4 of the pdfpages documentation for the signature option.

Stefan

[krz]

Vielen Dank, Stefan,
I've just installed pdfjam. I found a lot od options in it, but I hope I work it out.
Herzliche Gruesse!
Krzysztof

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Krzysztof,

I'm glad to read that it helped.
By the way, in general it's good to mark a topic as "solved" when the question is solved, it improves the readability of the forum and let's us easier find unsolved problems. It can be done by editing the first post of the topic and choosing the checkmark.

Best regards,

Stefan

[krz]

Stefan,
I have one more question, before I mark this topic as solved. Do you know how to start (in pdfjam) making pdf from second page? I want to make pdf as a book. Even page on the left side.
I studied --help, but I couldn't find it.
K.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Perhaps try options like this:

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pdfjam file.pdf '2-' ...

Stefan

[krz]

Thanks Stefan!
It works great.
K.