General ⇒ No output after pdfpages

[damianjb]

Hi, I'm using Auctex and pdflatex. I'm putting all the packages here to see if there is any problem of incompatibility.
I have this file called prueba-pdf.tex

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\documentclass[a4paper,9pt,book]{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage[nochapter,owncaptions]{vhistory}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\usepackage[inline]{enumitem}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{adforn}
\usepackage[below,section]{placeins}
\usepackage{float} 
\usepackage[xindy,style=altlist]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\usepackage[xindy]{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{framed}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[colorlinks,linkcolor=black]{hyperref}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\chapter{my first chapter}
\section{my first section}
\lipsum[4]

\chapter{my second chapter}
\section{my second section}
\lipsum[4]
\end{document}

This makes prueba-pdf.pdf as expected.
But, I want to print an A5 booklet on A4paper.
When I try to add

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\usepackage{pdfpages}

to the preamble and

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\includepdf[pages=-,booklet,landscape]{prueba-pdf.pdf}

after begin{document}, the minibuffer says

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Latex: Succesfully formatted [0] pages

and my pdf file dissapears.

Any ideas?

[Johannes_B]

Do you want to make a booklet out ouf your original work? I didn't quite follow.

If you do want to do that, you need to create a new file creating a completely new pdf file, please see the example below:

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\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname Original.tex}
	\documentclass[a4paper,9pt,book]{memoir}
	\usepackage{lipsum}
	\usepackage{blindtext}
	\begin{document}
	\chapter{my first chapter}
	\section{my first section}
	\lipsum[4]

	\chapter{my second chapter}
	\section{my second section}
	\lipsum[4]
	\blinddocument
	\blinddocument
	\blinddocument
	\blinddocument
	\end{document}
\end{filecontents}
%^ This is supposed to be your original file
%v Now the file making the booklet
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
%v This compiles the original file above
% You need to run the original using the option
% -shell-escape
\immediate\write18{pdflatex \jobname Original.tex}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages=-,booklet,landscape]{\jobname Original.pdf}
\end{document}

[damianjb]

I see I need to use those options from a different file.
I was trying to create my a4 file and my booklet at the same time and it was never going to work.
Thank you.