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: I want to print a double sided BOOK not booklet that is 200 pages long My book is 200pages long.I need to print double sided but I want it bound properly so needs to be in order for guillotine

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My book is 200pages long.I need to print double sided but I want it bound properly so needs to be in order for guillotine and stacking.My paper size is A4 but the book is A5 sideways on the A4 paper and double sided.I did this twice before for books but am now 65 and the settings are eluding me to the point of distraction.Any help would be appreciated. I have spent 3 days on this and loads of paper already...Perhaps I need to change my name

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@Cugini998

ON *nix systems there is a command called psbook (see instructions here) and psnup so you can probably find it for osX. For windows you can get it with cygwin. what you would do is call:

psbook -s16 print.ps out.ps
psnup -la4 -2 out.ps > out2up.ps


This will make pages with 16 page long signatures or 4 paper groups. You can change this by editing the -s flag.

It is also possible to do this with Acrobat scripting. But you can also use standalone tools like bookbinderor pdfbook instead.

References


PSUtils

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