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NAME

       a5booklet - copy two A5 pages from a .dvi file to one A4 page in another.

SYNOPSIS

       a5booklet file[.dvi]

DESCRIPTION

       A5booklet  is  a  little  script that allows you to typeset two A5 pages next to eachother on a single A4
       page (landscape), combining pages from the original file in such a way that after double  sided  printing
       and some reshuffeling of the pages you get a nice a5 booklet that is ready for a staple in the middle.

       The  script calls a very clever program dvidvi, written by Tomas Rokicki (the author of dvips), that does
       the real work.

       The output is written to two files, file-1.dvi and file-2.dvi

       dvips -ta4 -tlandscape file-1

       then put the stack upside doen in the printer, and print the second file using

       dvips -ta4 -tlandscape file-2

       Make sure that the bottom of the A5-pages is on the correct side of the paper when you put the stack back
       for printing the back side.  After the two print jobs, you must re-shuffle the paper stack before you can
       staple it.

SEE ALSO

       tex(1), dvips(1), dvidvi(1).

BUGS

       The script has A4 papersize hardwired into it.  Admittedly, a European-centered way of thinking.

       Page number 1 is always the first page in the original .dvi file,  not  the  page  numbered  1  by  TeX's
       numbering scheme.

AUTHOR

       A5booklet  is  written by David A. van Leeuwen (david@ElseWare.cistron.nl), but is is not original in any
       way.  The main two lines that do the work are inspired  from  the  man  page  of  dvidvi.   A5booklet  is
       available under the conditions of the Gnu Public Licence.

                                                  OCTOBER 1997                                      A5BOOKLET(1)