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Written by plaes on 2024-10-29 at 11:35

Any clue how to achieve the "print as book" on Fedora nowadays. There used to be pdftk and pdfjam packages, although these have been dropped from Fedora repositories.

One alternative that I have seen is pdf-stapler package which has some of the functionality, but not everything.

My problem: I have a 79 page PDF file that I want to print as book (also, my printer lacks collator, so I would have to print one side at a time and then print other side).

[#]fedora #pdf #bookbinding

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Written by Adam Williamson :fedora: on 2024-10-29 at 12:50

@plaes there's a texlive-pdfbook2 in the repos, have you tried that?

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Written by plaes on 2024-10-29 at 13:04

@adamw Whoa! Problem solved! Thank You!

After installing texlive-pdfbook2 I had to simply run: pdfbook2 orig.pdf which created orig-book.pdf with pages laid out exactly as needed.

Too bad it's somewhat buried under texlive ecosystem (together with pdfjam which is placed in texlive-pdfjam package).

[#]fedora #bookbinding #pdf #til

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