[ale] A PDF Challenge

Jeff Hubbs Jhubbs at niit.com
Wed Sep 27 17:05:26 EDT 2000


Here's the challenge I've been given:  Take a PDF-format brochure that is
formatted for folding and stapling down the middle (original is landscape)
and produce a new PDF file with one brochure page per printed page.  In
other words:

Start:

Sheet 1, front |---------|
               |    |    |
               |  8 |  1 |
               |    |    |
               |---------|

Sheet 1, back  |---------|
               |    |    |
               |  2 |  7 |
               |    |    |
               |---------|

Sheet 2, front |---------|
               |    |    |
               | 6  |  3 |
               |    |    |
               |---------|

Sheet 2, rear  |---------|
               |    |    |
               |  4 |  5 |
               |    |    |
               |---------|

Finish:

               |-------|
               |       |
               |   1   |
               |       |
               |       |
               |-------|

               |-------|
               |       |
               |   2   |
               |       |
               |       |
               |-------|
                   .
                   .
                   .
               |-------|
               |       |
               |   8   |
               |       |
               |       |
               |-------|


I need a way to pull this off under Linux.  I have ps2pdf and xpdf, so on
the surface of it, it seems like I need to use xpdf to print to a Postscript
file (there's got to be a way to do that but I have yet to find it),
manipulate the PS somehow, and then use ps2pdf to go back to PDF.  

Any suggestions on how to proceed or what to use, or is this something that
would better be done entirely in Acrobat?

- Jeff

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