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Can someone recommend an easy way to convert a PDF file into a quarter page booklet? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by CanadianCabbage@lemmy.ca to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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I'd like to have each page a 1/4 the size of a regular piece of paper, in a booklet style, printing on the front and back, and have 4 pages per page one side of piece of paper.

That way I can cut the page in half and minimize the amount of paper I use while making a quarter page size booklet I can keep in my pocket.

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[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends on your PDF viewer, but there is a print option to print 4 pages on one page. You will have to consider the print order to have front and back.

[–] CanadianCabbage@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's the issue I'm running into. Once you select 4 pages per sheet it seems to override the booklet mode.

Adobe seems to try to print

1 2

3 4

for example. The only option I can think of is to arrange the pages to work with this but it gets a bit difficult with nearly 100 pages.

[–] tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Lay the page order out in Excel (might be a nice puzzle in itself), concatenate into a single comma separated string, and feed that into the "what pages to print" print dialog field?