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Does anybody know how can I print several pages in the same one like this example, where it's supposed to show 16 pages reduced:



I don't care if you know abot it for Word, PDF or other kind of documents, I only need to know with what program and how to do print several reduced pages as thumbnails (the idea is to print more pages per each actual sheet), maybe with OpenOffice?

Using Windows, I would use CutePDF. Once you installed it, you see a new printer named CutePDF Writer. Print whatever you like and you'll get a PDF from it. When you print something, click on "options", and choose "multiple pages on one page", and you'll get exactly what it says. When you are done, just send the resulting PDF file to an ordinary printer.

Using *nix systems, there's a nice command-line utility named psnup which does exactly what you want with a postscript input / output. You can also use it as a pipe.

Acrobat Reader has an option for multiple pages per sheet in the print dialog. In OpenOffice 3.0, I found the (less complete variant) under the printer properties button, accessed from the print dialog (for some reason, it refuses to go past 8 pages/sheet). Nevertheless, OpenOffice can export to PDF directly, so you can use acrobat again if you need that much control.

Combuster wrote:Acrobat Reader has an option for multiple pages per sheet in the print dialog. In OpenOffice 3.0, I found the (less complete variant) under the printer properties button, accessed from the print dialog (for some reason, it refuses to go past 8 pages/sheet).

AR goes up to 16 pages/sheet. If you want more, install a virtual PDF printer and recursively print to the same PDF file, each time fitting more onto a single sheet with each pass.

Most Hewlett Packard and Canon Printer drivers do the jop. Both also can print double sided with or without duplex unit.