[Novalug] join 2 half pages into one

[Jon LaBadie]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 01:39:56PM -0500, John Warren wrote:
> I've done a lot of this, and my recommendation is Ghostscript, it doesn't
> care what sizes the pages are.
> 
> gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf
> target1.pdf target2.pdf target3.pdf


John,
That gs command did not do what I had hoped for.

I have two pdf files, each with a 8.5" x 5.5" single page.  I would
like them merged into a 8.5" x 11" single page (i.e. side by side
in landscape orientation of letter size paper.

Indeed the gs command above does merge them into a single document,
but each source document is centered on a separate letter sized page.

Jon
> 
> -John W
> 
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Jon LaBadie <novalugml at jgcomp.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have a 2 page document in .pdf, .odt, and/or .doc format.
> > The "pages" are actually 1/2 pages in letter page size,
> > i.e. margins are 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches.
> >
> > I would like to join the two pages side by side (i.e. into
> > one 11x8.5 inch page) in a single page document.  I suspect
> > it will require page rotation and placement on top and bottom
> > of a portrait oriented page or setting up landscape orientation
> > and placement left and right.
> >
> > There are several ways of printing multiple pages per output
> > page, but those I've seen always shrink the images, assuming
> > both pages were 8.5x11 to start.
> >
> > I have pdfedit (and pdffill on windows), but do not see the
> > needed capability.
> >
> > Suggestions?
> >
> > Jon
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