printing a booklet [feature request]

[lleroy]

I wonder how I would go about to print a book in a5 size.

This would need to print 1 pages per sheet, and print pages
in the following order (say 8 pages)
[blank 1][2 blank ][blank 3][4 blank][8 5][6 7]
then, printing this recto-verso on a4, and stapling/binding
in the middle of the page would leave me with a nice booklet.
(actually, 2,4,6,7 should probably be printed upside-down!)

[Douglas Saltsman]

Well...the layout would have to be handled by the application that you're printing the PDF from, I'm pretty sure MS Word has this option. The page size can be controlled by going into the printers and faxes control panels, clicking on the primopdf printer then choosing whichever size you want as the paper tray

[lleroy]

Originally Posted by Douglas Saltsman

Well...the layout would have to be handled by the application that you're printing the PDF from, I'm pretty sure MS Word has this option. The page size can be controlled by going into the printers and faxes control panels, clicking on the primopdf printer then choosing whichever size you want as the paper tray

MS Word doesn't have this option... that's why it would be nice if PrimoPDF would have this option!
btw, is PrimoPDF open source? I'd like to try and implement this myself...

[Douglas Saltsman]

Originally Posted by lleroy

MS Word doesn't have this option... that's why it would be nice if PrimoPDF would have this option!
btw, is PrimoPDF open source? I'd like to try and implement this myself...

Yes, you can get the source from the front page of www.primopdf.com Although I'd like to warn you that the implementation you are looking for is a very extensive ordeal.

[Frank Thynne]

Originally Posted by lleroy

MS Word doesn't have this option... that's why it would be nice if PrimoPDF would have this option!
btw, is PrimoPDF open source? I'd like to try and implement this myself...

Word doesn't offer this feature by name but (provided it isn't a long booklet) you can specify the order of pages explicitly when printing, eg 12,1,2,11,10,3,4,9,8,5,6,7. It's a bit harder if you have section breaks (quite likely in something you want to publish). The syntax for page numbering in sections is pnsm. Word help defines this more completely. I expect it could be done by a Word macro quite nicely.