[Novalug] join 2 half pages into one

Jon LaBadie novalugml at jgcomp.com
Wed Jan 27 15:07:09 EST 2010


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 01:51:56PM -0500, Theodore Ruegsegger wrote:
> Peter Larsen wrote:
> 
> > When I use evince to view a PDF, and hit "print" I have a property
> > that says "pages per page". Changing that rotates and places the
> > pages side-by-side on a single sheet. No need to manually rotate and
> > make tings fit.
> 
> Thank you, Peter, thank you! I've been looking for something like this
> for a long time; now I can print a geocache description on a single
> page.
> 
> > This is of course a property of the cups-driver; you may want to
> > start there and find a driver that fits the more specific parts of
> > your printer so it can be done on the fly for you?
> 
> Yikes, you're right, it gets even better! I no longer need the
> intermediate print-to-PDF; I can do it directly from the browser!
> 
> Peter, you made my day.
> 

Similarly, when you use Adobe's acroread to print, there is under
page handling, an option to print multiple pages per page.

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