Wanted: Freeware like FinePrint

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Wanted: Freeware like FinePrint.
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Generally spoken: We all still wait for one to appear.

There are several workarounds, which may *sometimes* be enough:
- Some programs support booklet printing, internally. (E.g. PFE -
the Programmers File Editor)
- There are programs for booklet printing of pure text like pr.exe
from Unix Utilities (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net)
- You'll see programs which calculate page numbering schemes to be
copied into the page sequence field of print dialogs (WordPageTool
by Geoff Phillips: www.realisticrandomdata.com)
- A couple of printer drivers support scaling and booklet printing.
You need to download such drivers directly from your printer
manufacturer, though. The drivers provided with Windows all seem
to lack such advanced functionality.

And last not least the complete, but long winded way:
- Create a *.pdf file using the *.pdf printer driver of your choice.
Convert it to a booklet using the Perl script by M. Hosken:

http://search.cpan.org/src/MHOSKEN/Text-PDF-0.25/scripts/pdfbklt.plx

A slightly older compiled version can be found here:

www.sil.org/~hosken/Utils/top.html
www.sil.org/~hosken/Utils/pdfbklt.zip

For your other requirements you'd need to use the PdfToolkit:

www.accesspdf.com/pdftk

before converting to a Booklet. After all is set up correctly you
can print the resulting *.pdf-booklet on the printer of your choice
using either manual or automatic duplexing.

Printing of 8 pages onto 1 sheet *might* be possible by applying
the PdfBooklet script twice.

No better free solution, yet. Sorry. ;-)

BeAr
 
Pelo said:
Wanted: Freeware like FinePrint.
Print Multiple Pages on a single sheet: Print 2, 4 or 8 pages on a
single sheet of paper.
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I have two printers (laser, Brother and HP), both printer divers
support printing 1-16 pages per sheet, withouth additional software,
so what's the problem?

Noddy
 
Noddy - 22.01.2006 16:46 :
I have two printers (laser, Brother and HP), both printer divers
support printing 1-16 pages per sheet, withouth additional software,
so what's the problem?
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printing more pages per sheet (what my Canon printerdriver does) means
not necessarely printing booklets where the sequence of output-sheets
can be cutted and putted/folded right together so that the final result
is a booklet with right arranged page-flow.

I'm using "ClickBook" for that, but that's not freeware but payware.
 
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:46:09 +0100, Noddy wrote...
I have two printers (laser, Brother and HP), both printer divers
support printing 1-16 pages per sheet, withouth additional software,
so what's the problem?
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Maybe someone wants to print a single page letter, a single page
spreadsheet and a double page DTP spread onto one single '4up' bit of
paper.
 
Wanted: Freeware like FinePrint.

http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/benefits.html

Print Multiple Pages on a single sheet: Print 2, 4 or 8 pages on a
single sheet of paper.

Easily add blank pages, delete pages, and re-sequence jobs.

Double sided printing.
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Yeah, I'd like to see one, too. What I'd *really* like to see, which
FinePrint doesn't even do, was a feature that the old DOS 4Print used to
have, where you could set the page width, and print several pages side-by-
side on each sheet; that was really nice if you had pages of data that was
only a few characters wide (such as lists of filenames, for example). You
could print four or five columns per page, depending on what fit. That was
REALLY handy, and I've never found anything after 4Print that could do it.
 
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