NAME
a5booklet - copy two A5 pages from a .dvi file to one A4 page in
another.
SYNOPSIS
a5booklet file[.dvi]
DESCRIPTION
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.
SEE ALSO
tex(1), dvips(1), dvidvi(1).
BUGS
The script has A4 papersize hardwired into it. Admittedly, a European-
centered way of thinking.
Page number 1 is always the first page in the original .dvi file, not
the page numbered 1 by TeX’s numbering scheme.
AUTHOR
A5booklet is written by David A. van Leeuwen
(david@ElseWare.cistron.nl), but is is not original in any way. The
main two lines that do the work are inspired from the man page of
dvidvi. A5booklet is available under the conditions of the Gnu Public
Licence.
OCTOBER 1997