LaTeX and bookbinding

[Dave Griffith]

I'm dabbling in bookbinding and I'd like to get some clarification on
getting things ready with Latex. I found the "booklet" and "twoup"
packages, but these seem to be made with the idea that a document would
span a single folio rather than several. I want to spread the whole of
the document across several folios, or booklets. Each folio will be
sewn, then the sewn folios will be sewn to each other.

[Malte Rosenau]

Post by Dave Griffith
I'm dabbling in bookbinding and I'd like to get some clarification on
getting things ready with Latex. I found the "booklet" and "twoup"
packages, but these seem to be made with the idea that a document would
span a single folio rather than several. I want to spread the whole of
the document across several folios, or booklets. Each folio will be
sewn, then the sewn folios will be sewn to each other.

This can be easily done with pdfpages.sty (\includepdf with
the 'signature' option) or psnup, PDFJam, etc..

[Dr Engelbert Buxbaum]

Post by Malte Rosenau

Post by Dave Griffith
I'm dabbling in bookbinding and I'd like to get some clarification on
getting things ready with Latex. I found the "booklet" and "twoup"
packages, but these seem to be made with the idea that a document would
span a single folio rather than several. I want to spread the whole of
the document across several folios, or booklets. Each folio will be
sewn, then the sewn folios will be sewn to each other.

This can be easily done with pdfpages.sty (\includepdf with
the 'signature' option) or psnup, PDFJam, etc..

And the scrbook class (drop-in replacement for book) has a parameter for
the binding correction (part of the page made invisible by binding).

[Morten Høgholm]

Post by Dave Griffith
I'm dabbling in bookbinding and I'd like to get some clarification on
getting things ready with Latex. I found the "booklet" and "twoup"
packages, but these seem to be made with the idea that a document would
span a single folio rather than several. I want to spread the whole of
the document across several folios, or booklets. Each folio will be
sewn, then the sewn folios will be sewn to each other.

The LaTeX package pdfpages has support for signatures.

[Philipp Pagel]

Post by Dave Griffith
I'm dabbling in bookbinding and I'd like to get some clarification on
getting things ready with Latex. I found the "booklet" and "twoup"
packages, but these seem to be made with the idea that a document would
span a single folio rather than several. I want to spread the whole of
the document across several folios, or booklets. Each folio will be
sewn, then the sewn folios will be sewn to each other.

The tool psbook does what you want (rearrange pages in PostScript file
into signatures). Just produce a normal postscript file with LaTeX and
then do something like

psbook -s32 myfile.ps newfile.ps

and you are done.

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Philipp