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I have an PostScript output from a man page produced by man -t ssh > man_ssh.ps. It opens for viewing in Evince Document Viewer. I want to print it on a printer that supports double-sided printing. So, I'd like to print it in 'brochure' mode - that is, when four pages of a document are printed on two sides single sheet, so when the sheets are folded in half all at once, the numeration of the pages of a document is like in a booklet. How can I print the document this way in Evince?



UPD: There is one more question, how to make man -t output comply to booklet page layout - that is, wider inner margins, making pages 'left' and 'right'?


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Looks like currently there's no way to print pages in brochure (booklet) mode neither in Evince nor in Xpdf. There is a semi-solution to use psbook utility from the pstools package that will rearrange and output the pages in the postscript file so they go as in booklet mode. Please note the -s option of the psbook which controls the number of original pages that would go into one booklet. This is useful when you want to print large amount of pages that is not going to be folded all at once, but folded into several sub-booklets. For example, 120-page document would go into 30-sheet brochure by default, which is hard to fold. Using the psbook -s 24 will make 120/24=5 brochures 6 sheets each, which are easy to fold and then to combine together.



Also note that man -t output is not well prepared for booklet printing - it has page numbers on "right" side, not on the "outer" side, and "left" and "right" page margins are the same instead of "inner" margin being larger than "outer", and pages are not classified as "left" and "right". Discussion on how to tweak the man -t output goes here.


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