a5booklet1

Usage

Overview

A5booklet is a little script that allows you to typeset two A5 pages next to eachother on a single A4 page (landscape), combining pages from the original file in such a way that after double sided printing and some reshuffeling of the pages you get a nice a5 booklet that is ready for a staple in the middle.

The script calls a very clever program dvidvi, written by Tomas Rokicki (the author of dvips), that does the real work.

The output is written to two files, file-1.dvi and file-2.dvi

dvips -ta4 -tlandscape file-1

then put the stack upside doen in the printer, and print the second file using

dvips -ta4 -tlandscape file-2

Make sure that the bottom of the A5-pages is on the correct side of the paper when you put the stack back for printing the back side. After the two print jobs, you must re-shuffle the paper stack before you can staple it.