Book Printing on Linux

[Tom Buskey]

psutils will do things like this with postscript files.  You might
have to script it up or it might already be in it.

Print to postscript
Use psutils to arrange/shrink/etc things
Ghostscript to send the lot to your printer.




On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 02:47:29 -0500, Brian Chabot <brian at datasquire.net> wrote:
> Here's an odd question:
> 
> A couple years ago I was researching bookbinding as a hobby.  I'd love
> to be able to print books and bind them, but to do so, I need a very
> specific pagination.
> 
> I'd like to be able to print a book ready for binding, without a trip to
> a photocopier, as the electrostatic process of photocopies does not lend
> itself well to the high-pressures and long time periods involved in the
> type of bookbinding I do. (15th cent. European binding on cords in case
> you were curious...)  Thus both photocopies and laser printing would be
> bad.  So, I would very much prefer to use my inkjet printer under Linux.
> 
> To do this, I want to make quarto sections (four sheets, 4 pages each,
> like several sixteen page booklets...) or Octo sections (eight sheets, 4
> pageseach).  The pagination for quarto sections would be 2 pages
> (portrait) per sheet (landscape, letter sized), numbered as such:
>