‘Creating cool little booklets from PDFs—fast’
PDF really shines as a printing technology more than a reading one—just ask any handheld owner who’s suffered the left-to-right scrolling routine.
Now, via Stephen Abrams’ blog, I’ve run across BookletCreator, a free tool that lets you take advantage of the good side of PDF and create nice little booklets from files in that format. If a document isn’t in PDF in the first place, then the PrimoPDF, also free, can help. So might the PDF creation in OpenOffice or a Microsoft Office add-on.
Detail: Check your printer software. Even without BookCreator, you might be able to print out booklets.
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March 4th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Yes David, some printers will print booklets and other formats directly. My old HP 6122 does booklets and duplex.
March 12th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Creating Booklets from PDFs…
So you can make PDFs from OpenOffice.org documents. Excellent. What if you’ve got a PDF already that you didn’t create, and you want it in a format like this? Stephen Abrams linked to from David Rothman writes about BookletCreator, a…