croppaper-sizetables
Do you know of any latex example or a package that I could use to print a pocket sized paper? All records will have a format like this:
| name | phone | e-mail |
It would contain only 15 records for now so I think an A6 or A7 would be a good paper size.
UPDATE: It would be nice to have cropping marks to help me cutting the A6 or A7 paper shape. I would like to fill an A4 paper with those pocket-sized phone books and then cut them for my 15 friends in the list.
The pdfpages package provides exactly this functionality.
Assume that you have a document that has been created in LaTeX on A6-sized paper (the example below creates a 29-page document, mya6doc.pdf say):
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}%
\usepackage[a6paper]{geometry}% http://ctan.org/pkg/geometry
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\begin{document}
\chapter{First chapter} \lipsum[1-10]
\chapter{Second chapter} \lipsum[11-20]
\chapter{Third chapter} \lipsum[21-30]
\chapter{Final chapter} \lipsum[31-40]
\end{document}
Now create another document mya4doc using the following:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}%
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}% http://ctan.org/pkg/geometry
\usepackage{pdfpages}% http://ctan.org/pkg/pdfpages
\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages=-,nup=2x2,frame,noautoscale]{mya6doc}%
\end{document}
pdfpages options allow for the inclusion of all pages (pages=-) in a 2x2 nup format (nup=2x2) with a border1 around each page (frame). Also, pages are left unscaled (noautoscale).
The default is to print pages using a row-first ordering. The can be modified to print using a column-first ordering3 by adding the option column:
Note that in the above example, nup=2x2 was used since A6 is 1/4 of A4. Therefore, the inserted pages remain exactly A6 and snugly fit side-by-side on A4. However, it is also possible to put 6 A6 pages on a A4 sheet, since pdfpages automatically scales the input pages to fit on the output pages (or any number2 for that matter). The inserted pages will be reduced in size accordingly. For example, modifying the above to
\includepdf[pages=-,nup=2x3,frame,delta=2cm 0]{mya6doc}%
produces a 3x2 layout with a horizontal gap of 2cm between the inserted pages (and zero vertical gap):
The package documentation provides the rest of the options.
1 Satisfies your first request.
2 Satisfies your second request.
3 Satisfies your third request.
There are two questions here:
1) How to specify the page size. This is best done with the geometry package, which has good documentation. The key idea is that you only specify as many parameters as necessary, and geometry fills in the rest. For example, you could say
\usepackage[twoside,papersize={7in,10in},margin=1in]{geometry}
and have the text width and height implicitly defined.
2) How to place crop marks that delineate your user-defined page on the A4 paper. For this, you can use the crop package, for example
\usepackage[cam,a4,center]{crop}
This package also has good documentation. Both packages are part of TeX Live so most likely you already have them installed.
Best Answer
Cant u just make a file like this on a6 paper:
Or with a simple table?
My testfile:
Output: