Imposing 2 up without reducing original page size

Imposing 2-up without reducing original page size?

Here's what I'm trying to do: I have designed a book with 8.5" x 7"
pages with the idea that they could be printed 2-up on 8.5" x 14"
paper, cut once, stacked and bound. Book to be produced in one-off
quantities at any copy shop. To do this I am first interleaving the
front half of the PDF pages with the back half, then imposing 2-up
onto legal size pages, which gives me the first half of the book at
the top of the page and the back half on the bottom, in proper order.
I'm using Tom Phelps' Multivalent PDF Tools (excellent, Java-based,
command line tools, BTW).

My problem is this: I can't seem to get the Impose tool to do 2-up
without scaling down the original pages.

Anyone have suggestions, or alternate tool that allows imposing to
arbitrary page size and does not scale the original pages?

The only thing I've found so far is Quite Imposing, but nearly $500
USD is quite steep for one job.

Thanks!

Re: Imposing 2-up without reducing original page size?

On Sep 18, 12:02=A0pm, crusher...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Here's what I'm trying to do: I have designed a book with 8.5" x 7"
> pages with the idea that they could be printed 2-up on 8.5" x 14"
> paper, cut once, stacked and bound. Book to be produced in one-off
> quantities at any copy shop. To do this I am first interleaving the
> front half of the PDF pages with the back half, then imposing 2-up
> onto legal size pages, which gives me the first half of the book at
> the top of the page and the back half on the bottom, in proper
> order.  I'm using Tom Phelps' Multivalent PDF Tools (excellent,
> Java-based, command line tools, BTW).
>
> My problem is this: I can't seem to get the Impose tool to do 2-up
> without scaling down the original pages.
>
> Anyone have suggestions, or alternate tool that allows imposing to
> arbitrary page size and does not scale the original pages?
>
> The only thing I've found so far is Quite Imposing, but nearly $500
> USD is quite steep for one job.

For a completely free workflow, convert to Postscript using pdftops
(from the xpdf package); then, use ps2ps (from the pstools package) to
do any imposition whatsoever desired.

Re: Imposing 2-up without reducing original page size?

You could use PDFNet SDK (http://www.pdftron.com/net) to imposition
and all kinds of PDF processing.

As a starting point you may want to take a look at Imposition sample
project:
  http://www.pdftron.com/net/samplecode.html#Imposition

PDFNet SDK is a commercial grade PDF library (for JAVA, .NET, C/C++,
etc), however a free development version (http://www.pdftron.com/
downloads.html) will allow you to prepare a print job free of charge.

Rob

On Sep 18, 9:02=A0am, crusher...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Here's what I'm trying to do: I have designed a book with 8.5" x 7"
> pages with the idea that they could be printed 2-up on 8.5" x 14"
> paper, cut once, stacked and bound. Book to be produced in one-off
> quantities at any copy shop. To do this I am first interleaving the
> front half of the PDF pages with the back half, then imposing 2-up
> onto legal size pages, which gives me the first half of the book at
> the top of the page and the back half on the bottom, in proper order.
> I'm using Tom Phelps' Multivalent PDF Tools (excellent, Java-based,
> command line tools, BTW).
>
> My problem is this: I can't seem to get the Impose tool to do 2-up
> without scaling down the original pages.
>
> Anyone have suggestions, or alternate tool that allows imposing to
> arbitrary page size and does not scale the original pages?
>
> The only thing I've found so far is Quite Imposing, but nearly $500
> USD is quite steep for one job.
>
> Thanks!

Imposing 2-up without reducing original page size?

Here's what I'm trying to do: I have designed a book with 8.5" x 7"
pages with the idea that they could be printed 2-up on 8.5" x 14"
paper, cut once, stacked and bound. Book to be produced in one-off
quantities at any copy shop. To do this I am first interleaving the
front half of the PDF pages with the back half, then imposing 2-up
onto legal size pages, which gives me the first half of the book at
the top of the page and the back half on the bottom, in proper order.
I'm using Tom Phelps' Multivalent PDF Tools (excellent, Java-based,
command line tools, BTW).

My problem is this: I can't seem to get the Impose tool to do 2-up
without scaling down the original pages.

Anyone have suggestions, or alternate tool that allows imposing to
arbitrary page size and does not scale the original pages?

The only thing I've found so far is Quite Imposing, but nearly $500
USD is quite steep for one job.

Thanks!

Re: Imposing 2-up without reducing original page size?

On Sep 18, 12:02=A0pm, crusher...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Here's what I'm trying to do: I have designed a book with 8.5" x 7"
> pages with the idea that they could be printed 2-up on 8.5" x 14"
> paper, cut once, stacked and bound. Book to be produced in one-off
> quantities at any copy shop. To do this I am first interleaving the
> front half of the PDF pages with the back half, then imposing 2-up
> onto legal size pages, which gives me the first half of the book at
> the top of the page and the back half on the bottom, in proper
> order.  I'm using Tom Phelps' Multivalent PDF Tools (excellent,
> Java-based, command line tools, BTW).
>
> My problem is this: I can't seem to get the Impose tool to do 2-up
> without scaling down the original pages.
>
> Anyone have suggestions, or alternate tool that allows imposing to
> arbitrary page size and does not scale the original pages?
>
> The only thing I've found so far is Quite Imposing, but nearly $500
> USD is quite steep for one job.

For a completely free workflow, convert to Postscript using pdftops
(from the xpdf package); then, use ps2ps (from the pstools package) to
do any imposition whatsoever desired.

Re: Imposing 2-up without reducing original page size?

You could use PDFNet SDK (http://www.pdftron.com/net) to imposition
and all kinds of PDF processing.

As a starting point you may want to take a look at Imposition sample
project:
  http://www.pdftron.com/net/samplecode.html#Imposition

PDFNet SDK is a commercial grade PDF library (for JAVA, .NET, C/C++,
etc), however a free development version (http://www.pdftron.com/
downloads.html) will allow you to prepare a print job free of charge.

Rob

On Sep 18, 9:02=A0am, crusher...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Here's what I'm trying to do: I have designed a book with 8.5" x 7"
> pages with the idea that they could be printed 2-up on 8.5" x 14"
> paper, cut once, stacked and bound. Book to be produced in one-off
> quantities at any copy shop. To do this I am first interleaving the
> front half of the PDF pages with the back half, then imposing 2-up
> onto legal size pages, which gives me the first half of the book at
> the top of the page and the back half on the bottom, in proper order.
> I'm using Tom Phelps' Multivalent PDF Tools (excellent, Java-based,
> command line tools, BTW).
>
> My problem is this: I can't seem to get the Impose tool to do 2-up
> without scaling down the original pages.
>
> Anyone have suggestions, or alternate tool that allows imposing to
> arbitrary page size and does not scale the original pages?
>
> The only thing I've found so far is Quite Imposing, but nearly $500
> USD is quite steep for one job.
>
> Thanks!