[ALUG] Printing Pdf files

[Mr. Adam ALLEN]

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 17:03 +0000, Barry Samuels wrote:
> Is there any software that would enable me, easily, to print a single 
> pdf page over multiple A4 sheets?
> 
> For example I have a pdf file which conists of one page but when 
> printed on one A4 sheet makes it very difficult to read because the 
> font is so small. It would be better to be able to print it on perhaps 
> 2 A4 sheets if printed portrait or 3 A4 sheets if printed landscape.
> 

http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/

The script I used to use (haven't printed lot's of pages at home for a
long time) is:

 PAGES=2
 rm -f /tmp/unmangled.ps
 rm -f /tmp/next.ps
 rm -f /tmp/$PAGES.pages.ps
 mpage -$PAGES "$1" >/tmp/$PAGES.pages.ps
 ps2pdf -r600 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress /tmp/$PAGES.pages.ps

Where $1 was a 1-per-page postscript of the original document (PDF in
your case).


Adam