How to print multiple page of a document on single sheets of paper (example prints pages 2x2 on a sheet):
- Convert the doc to pdf
pdfnup --nup 2x2 --no-landscape doc.pdflpr doc-nup.pdf
To get pdfnup on gentoo you’ll need to install app-text/pdfjam.
More advanced options
pdfnup --nup 2x2 --suffix '2x2' --landscape --batch doc-one.pdf doc-two.pdf
That will create files called doc-one-2x2.pdf and doc-two-2x2.pdf whos pages each contain four pages of the original in landscape orientation.
For other options, see pdfjam --help.
My common usage
I normally use pdfnup simply to reduce the number of pages I have to print. The documents I print most often are research papers, which are normally in portrait orientation.
2 pages per sheet (halve the number of pages to print):
pdfnup --nup 2x1 --suffix '2x1' doc.pdf
4 pages per sheet (quarter the number of pages to print):
pdfnup --nup 2x2 --suffix '2x2' --no-landscape doc.pdf
