General ⇒ A4 portrait oriented booklet

[cgl72]

hello everyone,
I have used very basic Latex up to now. I now want to print a booklet in an unusual size. It is an A4 booklet folded folded in half lengthwise, to be printed on A4 paper, double sided then cut.
I have read through the documentation for the "booklet" package and it seems to my newbie eyes that all the tools are made to make an A4 portrait document into an 2 or 4 page per sheet landscape print. I know that with Latex "everything is possible". So I thought someone out there could give me some pointer about where to look and what strategy to adopt.

Here is my current preamble:

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\documentclass[10pt]{article} 
\setlength{\paperheight}{298mm}
\setlength{\paperwidth}{105mm}
\usepackage[top=1cm, bottom=1cm, left=1cm, right=1cm]{geometry}
\setlength{\textwidth}{9cm}
\usepackage[print]{booklet}
\source{\magstep0}{105mm}{298mm} 
\target{\magstep0}{210mm}{298mm} 

I chose the strategy of creating a document that could be 1to1 with the booklet. But when the resulting booklet has an output size that is the same as defined on line 2 and 3.
Any comments or ideas on how to make an A4 booklet folded down the center lengthwise are welcome!

Thanks
Christian

[mas]

I did not completely understand your problem and I am guessing it here. What I see is that you are trying to prepare and print a document on half of a4 paper (double side). Is it correct?

I have prepared quite a few books like that. I typeset the document thus :

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\documentclass[a5paper,twoside,openany]{book}
\usepackage[body={10cm,17cm}]{geometry}
\usepackage[a5,center,off]{crop}

\begin{document}
blah ...
\end{document}

After successful compilation, I use psbook from psutils suite to create proper signatures. The resulting ps file can then be input to psnup to print 2 a5 pages per a4 page thus :

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  psnup -2 -Pa5 a5.ps a4.ps

Hope I have given you the idea. Someone might suggest a better way

Regards,

sridhar