Yesterday I encountered a problem with printing an A6 pdf document (which I created using LaTeX).
The Printing shop did not have A6 sheets, so they took the print out on an A4, which turned out different than what I expected it to – it was magnified in the print.
I have few questions to ask, please help me out:
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Is it possible to put A6 page with border, so I could get printout of any sized paper, and then cut it using the border?
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Can I put multiple (x,y) on (a,b) paper? Here paper size is mention with this convention (width, height) and (a,b) bigger than (x,y). As show in the image below.
Ex:
6 orange-size sheets on one green-size sheet, with border for cutting the paper into A6 after the printing? -
Is it possible to arrange smaller sheets in any order on a bigger sheet?
Like consecutive sheets row wise or column wise? Below I have mentioned the page numbers and arrangement.
(1, 2, 3) (1, 4, 7) (4, 5, 6) or (2, 5, 8) (7, 8, 9) (3, 6, 9)
Best Answer
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):Now create another document
mya4doc
using the following: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, sincepdfpages
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 toproduces 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.