Hi all,
I need to compose a page smaller than the A4 format. When I will print it i'd like to have 2 prints in a sheet.
Which solution is the best:
- working on a document with the same dimension of the wanted output: is there a way to proing twice on a A4 sheet?
- working on a document with A4 dimension and, with a trick, have two outputs in a sheet: how can i clone the content?
?


Thanks !

Well my best guess is to print 2 across so for example if you were printing A5 turn your paper lay out to A4 landscape put a guise line at half way then put your design one half duplicate it and repeat it on the second half print it off and A4 and then cut the paper in half... and you have 2 A5 documents... it works scaling it up to A3 to.. or if its duplexed one each side do both designs print one side and then print your second on on the other side.

Ok,
there not exists a tool to clone 'automagically', on the fly, what you draw on the first half page, is it?

If i need to print the front and the rear of that sheet .. how can i align them?
Maybe drawing to sheets, the first one with 2 fronts and the second one with the 2 rears?
I should align the left margins on the first sheet with the right margins on the second sheet (the rear), is it?
Is there other technique ^

Thanks a lot

SteM wrote:Hi all,
I need to compose a page smaller than the A4 format. When I will print it i'd like to have 2 prints in a sheet.
Which solution is the best:
- working on a document with the same dimension of the wanted output: is there a way to proing twice on a A4 sheet?
- working on a document with A4 dimension and, with a trick, have two outputs in a sheet: how can i clone the content?
?


Thanks !

My crappie, not stand alone HP printer, came with a utility that lets you put as may copies of an image on a page as you want. So it might depend on your printer and your operating system. I'm using vista. There are a lot of cliches with printing form inside 0.46. Problems with blurs and path getting moved around. They are supposed to be fixed in 0.47, but I haven't tied so I dunno. I usually print PNG file via that HP utility.

I think what you are trying to do is duplexing. To have a front and a reverse side on one document.

To do that you need to create your artwork to the size you require which in your case would be A4 if you need them aligned use guide lines. double clicking on a guide line will let you type in a measurement and align it exact. text and images will align to the guide lines. So set up your guides create your artwork front and back.

By the sounds of it you dont have automatic duplexing so you will have to print off how ever many copies you need of the front page for example 50 then manually duplex it by taking the 50 copies turning them around placing them back in the printer remembering which way the originals were put in so there the same way up then simply print 50 back copies if your using a decent quality paper you should be alright. some printer drivers come with a duplexing facility check yours out

In this thread I show some finished work, a product brochure.

It's a 4 page PDF, A5 size, created from 4 different Inkscape drawings, each A5 portrait size.

The four SVG's were saved as pdf and the four PDF's were combined to one large PDF using PDF Split And Merge.

Many printers can nowadays print more pages on one sheet.

However, if your printer can't, or you need to convert that into a small booklet, to be printed on A4 paper in landscape, which you then can fold along the center it, you can use a small LaTeX document:




The output of that is a new PDF with your pages ordered in the proper way.

You obiously do need LaTeX for that.....