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This is how I produce a5 booklets printed on a4 paper (which is then folded once) with LaTeX using the KOMA-Script document class scrbook. The booklet bash script#!/bin/sh # # This script takes an A5 latex file as input and produces an A4 # document (both ps and pdf) for printing an A5 booklet # # Usage: # booklet [filename without extension] latex $1 latex $1 # make an a5 ps from dvi: dvips -t a5 -o $1.ps $1.dvi # sort pages psbook $1.ps tmp1.ps # put two pages on one a4 sheet psnup -Pa5 -pa4 -2 tmp1.ps tmp2.ps # change a5 to a4 in ps file sed 's/^%%DocumentPaperSizes: A5/%%DocumentPaperSizes: a4/g' < tmp2.ps > $1_booklet.ps # produce pdf files, pdflatex ist used (twice) to get bookmarks pdflatex $1.tex pdflatex $1.tex ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 $1_booklet.ps # delete tmp files rm tmp1.ps tmp2.ps The LaTeX file\documentclass[a5paper,headsepline,titlepage,10pt,normalheadings,DIVcalc]{scrbook} \usepackage[a5paper,backref]{hyperref} \begin{document} \title{An example booklet} \author{} \maketitle \tableofcontents \chapter{Chapter One} \section{Section One} Some Text \end{document} |