2016-04-08



In my daily life I prefer troff over Latex, but that's  more  be-
cause of experience and simplicity. Latex is much more foreign to
me than troff, but still I use it if it appears to be the  better
tool  for  the job. (Some things, like images and automatic posi-
tioning, are pretty clumsy in troff.)

Today, I used for the pdfpages package ... with huge success.   I
had  it on my todo list for quite some time, but never managed to
actually use it. Eventually it was easy. This also  results  from
the typically impressive documentation of Latex packages.

This is the Latex document I used (inside of my troff  processing
line)  to  generate book signatures from a single-sided PDF docu-
ment:

     \documentclass{scrartcl}
     \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
     \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
     \usepackage{pdfpages}
     \begin{document}

     \includepdf[
             pages=-,
             signature=16, landscape,
             scale=1.30,
             offset=+1.0cm 0, delta=0 -7cm,
             %frame=true,
     ]{foo.pdf}

     \end{document}

(I print and bind the result to real books, for fun.)



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>