Text Formatting ⇒ Reformat Document with two Pages on landscape Page

[Laurentius]

I was planning on printing my thesis in book format, but I can’t figure out how to use the "2up", "twoup" and booklet packages. For one thing, the output is still portrait, not landscape. I tried this.

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[print]{booklet}
\usepackage{twoup}

And I tried also this.

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{2up}
\usepackage{twoup}

[localghost]

Why did you not typeset your document in the correct page format right from the beginning? Actually the booklet package should be enough to get the desired result (I never used it). Or where did you get the idea to use it in conjunction with the other mentioned packages? Did you read its manual?

An alternative could be to use pdfpages and reorganize the document to the desired format.


Thorsten

[Laurentius]

Thanks, I just googled "latex book format" or something. I now got it to work, I think.

I use this preamble:

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\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{hanging}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{relsize}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\textwidth=0.5\textheight
\topmargin=1in
\addtolength{\textheight}{-1.5in}

%\usepackage[print, 1to1]{booklet}
%\special{landscape}
%\oddsidemargin=.5\paperheight
%\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-\textwidth}
%\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-.5in}
%\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{.5in}

When I want to make a booklet, I uncomment the last bit. What I was missing before was \special{landscape}. This seems to be quite a practical solution, unless more problems come up.

(It isn’t practical to work in booklet mode, since the first p comes out together with the last &c.)

[Laurentius]

Why did you not typeset your document in the correct page format right from the beginning?

What do you mean?

Does pdfpages preserve the font size?

[localghost]

What do you mean? […]

The paper format of course. Something like A5 or or a custom paper size.

[…] Does pdfpages preserve the font size?

No. It scales pages and their content.