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Hi,

I have to merge two different pdf into a single double-page.

Any idea to merge the files side-by-side? By pitsop script?

Thanks for your help.

Benoit

If you want to impose the merged file you would need Inpo2, Quite Hot or callas pdfToolbox Server. PitStop Server cannot impose.

You could use PDF Enhancer to perform the 2-up imposition. Here's a sample configuration that imposes 2 pages on a Letter sized page.













1

2









CropBox

Fit

true

Center

1

UpperLeft

sorry about that, I forgot Enhancer has imposition.

Thanks for your answers.

Benoit

Hi Benoit,



callas pdfToolbox was already mentioned here, but to make it concrete, the following link points to the procedure to split pages saved with reader spreads from InDesign in two:



http://www.callassoftware.com/callas/do ... 4:brochure



What you want to do is the opposite action called "Reader Spreads". The action is available in the desktop product and can be automated with pdfToolbox Server inside of Switch.



Kind regards,

David.

It can be done in PitStop.
Page 1 and P2 are A4 needs to go to A3(or plus ?) imposed.
P1 resize the page to A3 and position content left.
P2 resize the page to A3 and position content right.
I use PDFTK to stamp the pages together.
Takes a bit of jigging to get the sizes correct but works.
I have a flow that does a 8p leaflet reordered and imposed.

You can even use the method that Malcom suggest without the need of PDFTK. After resizing the two pages cut or copy the content of P1, paste it into P2 and delete P1.

Hi Malcom,

i have some issues with the pdftk command line, in the windows cmd it all works but i can't get it working in switch,
did you do it with a .bat file or?

could share your exemple?

kind regards

Malcolm Mackenzie wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 10:02 am It can be done in PitStop.
Page 1 and P2 are A4 needs to go to A3(or plus ?) imposed.
P1 resize the page to A3 and position content left.
P2 resize the page to A3 and position content right.
I use PDFTK to stamp the pages together.
Takes a bit of jigging to get the sizes correct but works.
I have a flow that does a 8p leaflet reordered and imposed.

Save the imposition in pdfToolbox as an Action, in the pdfToolbox imposition setup you chose "Create new Switchboard Action"

This action can then be used in a Process plan. The Process plan is then exported as a pdfToolbox profile that you run in Switch with the pdfToolbox configurator.

There is also a special pdfToolbox imposition configurator that uses the .runlist and .sheetconfig files.

The Arguments as below use my variables so may need editing

C:/Program Files (x86)/PDFtk Server/bin/pdftk.exe
"%1/[Job.NestedName:Index="2",Space="trim"]" background "%1/[Job.NestedName:Index="3",Space="trim"]" output "%2"