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Questions tagged [imposition]

Use this tag when you are talking about gluing pages together in some certain order for the purpose of more effective printing.

Imposition is about how to glue pages of the document together in order to print them more effectively. For example, when you want to print two-sided A4 booklet on the A3 paper. Then you need to place your pages [1] [2] [3] [4] in the following order: [4|1], then [2|3].

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Gluing (Imposition) PDF documents

I have several A4 PDF documents which I would like (two into one) "glue" together into A3 format PDF document. So I will get from 2PDFs A4 a single one sided PDF A3. I have found the excellent utility PDFToolkit and some others but none of them can…
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How to join multiple PDF pages to a single Page

I have a PDF with 4 pages. I want to create another PDF where the pages are positioned one after the another (Vertical aligment) in a single page. Which commandline tool can be used for that?
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automatically imposing 4 pdf pages into A4 sheet following custom order

I want to reassemble my PDF documents to print them on A5 using the A4 format from my printer. Also I need to print two sites (slides) on each A5 page which of course should be double sided. Hence the A4 page is in landscape format. Than I want to…
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PDF Imposition in PHP

I'm looking for a PHP library that will allow me to create a print-ready PDF. The imposition should include 1-up, 4-up, 24-up, etc. layouts, and crop marks. FPDF, TCPDF and PHP's included PDF libraries allow me to create an image and plop it on a…
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getting two A6 complete booklet sequences from an A4 page

I have an a6 pdf book. I'd like to convert it to an a4 pdf so that when I print it, I can cut the a4 page in two (upside and downside will have the same content, so I'll end up with two copies of the book) and when putting together the pages, they…
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Cutting pdf page in half and reimposing parts differently using ghostscript

I'm looking for a ghostscript (or other commandline) command to reimpose a pdf page so that the elements on the left side are copied to the right. Like so: The size of the page shouldn't change (each page is cropped and cut differently), and while…
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How do I embed a source PDF onto an existing page in a PDF?

I need to programmatically embed an existing PDF (a small graphic) onto a specfic page on an existing PDF. Using iTextSharp I've been able to add a new page containing this embedded PDF, but what need is to modify an existing page by adding this…
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Fitting multiple PDF A4 pages to one A1 page

I need to convert this document , which has twelve A4 pages, to something like this, to one A1 page (width:84,1 cm and height:59,4). I've searched a little over the internet about it, but I didn't find anything that could really help me. Thanks for…
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getting a booklet layout for print and cut in half

I will try and make this as clear as possible but it's difficult to explain. I want to print 2 pages per side, on each side. Normally the pattern when putting this through the printer is from left to right, with the first set of pages on the first…
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How to put multiple SVGs on one page in a particular size?

I am designing a card game. I made a card template in Inkscape and then wrote a Python script to copy the template and make a new SVG file for each card, filling in the title and so on from a CSV file. What I would like to do with the resulting…
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Pdf Imposition using Python

I am trying to have the first page and second page of the pdf imposed on to page 1. The first page will be above the second page, imposed on the first page. The issue is the pages are not triming, or merging. The last page imposes on the second to…
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imposition pdf via ghostscript

there are lots of solution, like Quite Imposing. My thoughts, can we use ghostscipt do similar thing. say, - split pages into several ps files - using postscript run command, insert those ps file into a temple - transfer ps template into pdf (via…
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Create a workspace to work with PDF (C#)

I want to create a workspace with certain size (103x82cm for example) like an indesign-like environment where PDF pages can be arranged in a certain way, which is called impositioning: I've learned about PDF libraries, but to me it seems like they…
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Java -> iText -> Imposition (n-Up) -> Example

I'd like to offer a Starbucks card to whomever can help me understand completely this code. It's important to me. Thank you for your time! I started to read the wonderful book of Mr. Lowagie (iText in Action, Second Edition). It is really well…
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iText -> how to do PDF Page Imposition

Could someone kindly show a working code example for PDF page imposition using iText? It seems I've exhausted my Google options: there's no code samples for that out there. Thanks, InnerOrchestra ps: By imposition, a printing technical term, I mean,…
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