Re: Formatting for web and print?

On 10/31/07, Jim Davis <ww3lstep@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A couple of years ago I used Microsoft Publisher to write a simple
> club newsletter -- this time around I'd like to use abiword under
> Linux (Ubuntu in particular). One complication is that traditionally
> we've produced a PDF on the web, which is a simple sequence of 8.5x11"
> pages in portrait mode, but also printed a version that is 11x17"
> landscape mode. Under Windows I'd use Adobe Distiller to "paste" two
> 8.5x11 pages together to form the print version. I see an option for
> 11x17" landscape pages in abiword, and ideally there would be some way
> to take a file of 8.5x11" pages and simply reformat it into 11x17"
> landscape mode, but offhand I don't see how to do that. If it isn't
> possible inside abiword, is there a post-processing method anyone's
> used (pdftk, perhaps?) to get the effect of pasting pages together to
> get an 11x17" landscape version?

Hi Jim,

"pstops" is a handy tool for doing all kinds of tranformations on
postscript files (page reordering including multiples on a physical
page, scaling, shifting ...). Sounds like that's what you want. A bit
quirky at the beginning maybe, but very powerful. Googling for
something like "pstops imposition" should turn up details, e.g.
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_impositions_with_pstops

HTH,
Rob
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Received on Wed Oct 31 07:53:07 2007