General ⇒ Booklet package: Xetex and landscape view

[RAPhomme]

Hello, does anyone know if the Booklet package can be made to work with Xetex? I'm trying to use the Booklet package to generate a simple booklet or "signature" of several folded sheets of poems, one poem per page. The idea is to have each poem print on half an 8.5x11 inch, standard letterpage sheet, in landscape orientation. Folded and collated, the sheets then make a readable booklet front to back.

The problem I'm having is that when I use Xetex (fontspec), the pdf file generated by the Booklet package prints or displays in landscape for the first page only and then portrait for succeeding pages.

Here is an example document:

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\documentclass[11pt]{memoir}

\usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text, Numbers=OldStyle]{Adobe Caslon Pro}

\settypeblocksize{*}{4in}{1.5}
\setlrmargins{*}{*}{1.5}
\setulmargins{*}{*}{1.5}
\setheadfoot{\onelineskip}{2\onelineskip}
\setheaderspaces{*}{2\onelineskip}{*}
\checkandfixthelayout

\raggedright
\raggedbottom

\PlainPoemTitle

%booklet formatting
\usepackage[print,twouparticle]{booklet} \nofiles
\pagespersignature{8}
\ifpdf
\setpdftargetpages
\else
\setdvipstargetpages
\fi
\ifprintoption % tweak dvi output only for final printing
\special{!TeXDict begin /landplus90{true}store end}
\special{!TeXDict begin <</Tumble true>> setpagedevice end}
 \fi

\begin{document}

\settowidth{\versewidth}{line 1}

\PoemTitle{Poem 1}
\begin{verse}[\versewidth]
line 1\\
line 2
\end{verse}

\pagebreak

\PoemTitle{Poem 2}
\begin{verse}[\versewidth]
line 1\\
line 2
\end{verse}

\pagebreak

\PoemTitle{Poem 3}
\begin{verse}[\versewidth]
line 1\\
line 2
\end{verse}

\pagebreak

\PoemTitle{Poem 4}
\begin{verse}[\versewidth]
line 1\\
line 2
\end{verse}

\end{document}

What emerges from this is one correctly formatted Booklet page in landscape, with poems 1 and 4 side by side, and one page in portrait, with poem 2 by itself (and poem 3 off the margin to the right somewhere).

When I comment out fontspec, the pages display properly. Any way to fix this?

Thanks

[localghost]

Right at the beginning of Section 2 the booklet manual says that the package can only be used with PDFLaTeX. Perhaps the package maintainer can advice.


Thorsten

[RAPhomme]

Yes, of course I've read the manual several times. It's always hard to tell, I think, how inclusive or exclusive claims like that are. I'm mainly wondering if anyone has gotten it to work, or can spy obvious mistakes I'm making. But thanks for the suggestion--I'll try the writer or maintainer. RP