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Ant_222
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How to make a booklet?

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Hello all!

Is there a way I can create a booklet with latex? I need to reorder pages, take "creep" into account and so on...

Thanks in advance,
Anton

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gmedina
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How to make a booklet?

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The booklet package could be useful.
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Ant_222
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Re: How to make a booklet?

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Hey! Many thanks, it indeed looks useful!

Unfortunately, it seems not to have a means to compensate for creep, and I actually want to use it for home-made booklets consisting of a single signature (made up from about 20-32 A4 sheets) — thick enough for creep to reveal itself!

But singe-signature booklets are so much simpler to stitch at home...

EDIT: And another probelm which I hope you won't mind to help me with... Booklet seems to support only several signature sizes: 4, 8, 16, and 32 pages, while it's clear that a simple 2-up booklet can have any number of pages as long as it is a multiple of four... Don't you know, did I miss anything or is booklet that limited?

Thanks again.

EDIT2: I remember using pdftk to reorder pages (coupled with my own Pascal program to generate page sequences for any signature size), but again, that doesn't deal with creep...

EDIT3: OK... it's done with the /pagespersignature command...
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