From: Mario Becroft (mb@gem.win.co.nz)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 19:59:32 EDT
> > > There isnīt any wordprocessor that has got this option. When you have
> > > to print a document to bind a book, you have to:
> > > 1.- Put option "apaisado" (I donīt know how it is said in english the
> > > option to turn the page)
> > > 2.- Chouse two columns.
> > > 3.- Order manually the pages in several notebooks that after they are
> > > goint to be doubled and sewed: for example, if you decided notebooks
> > > made of 4 pages, the order will be: page 16 and page 1 in the first
> > > face of the first page, in the second face will be printed the 2 and
> > > the 15; in the second page will be printed the 14 and the 3 and in the
> > > second face the 4 and the 13....
> > >
> > > 4.- And finally, print.
Actually, if I understand you correctly, there are tools especially for
handling the things you mention, independent of the word processor or
other program used to create the document.
These are tools which take any DSC-compliant postscript as input, and
enable you to manipulate the pages as required to produce a book.
The tools you are looking for are psnup, psbook, psselect and so on. One
of the tools I have appears to be by Angus J. C. Duggan. You should be
able to find them on the web, as they are freely available.
For instance, the command I use to print an A5 pamphlet printed on A4
(from a file book.ps, containing a series of A4 pages) is:
cat book.ps |psbook |psnup -pa4 -s1 -2 |lpr -Plp2-a4dt
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