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Printing pages 1 and 2 on one sheet of paper

2009-07-13 07:23:57

DogmaDot

Registered: Jul 13 2009

Posts: 5

I'm new to this forum - actually to Acrobat, too. I THINK my understanding of the directions, that for example a 4-page document can be printed on 1 sheet of paper, i.e., pages 1 and 2 [reduced in size] on the front and pages 3 and 4 similarly reduced in size on the back.

If this is true, can someone give me directions in words of one syllable how to do it? I have 81 documents that need to be printed for setting up committees, but that don't necessarily need to be top quality print.

DogmaDot

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 7.0.9, Windows

2009-07-13 07:56:17

UVSAR

Registered: Oct 29 2008

Posts: 1357

Yes and no - placing several pages on one sheet is called imposition, and Acrobat won't do it out of the box (though there are many commercial plugins which add the feature, see http://www.quite.com and http://www.pdfsnake.com for examples). However if your printer driver supports imposition (usually through an option called n-up printing) then Acrobat will be happy to send the data and let the printer software handle the arrangements.

2009-07-13 09:15:14

DogmaDot

Registered: Jul 13 2009

Posts: 5

Thanks for your quick reply. GOV regs don't let us download outside software. However, I am using a Xerox WorkCentre 5030 PCL6 which in theory does n-up. I think I managed to get the desired effect.

Again, thanks. I really appreciate it.