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I have a 4 page latex form on A4 paper. I want to print it on a3 paper (2 a4 pages=a3) so that page 1 and 4 can print on one side and 2-3 print on other side. How can I do it? Kindly help

Vaibhav
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Here is an example of the code for a booklet I wrote a few years ago. It was a booklet at the A5 format printed on A4 paper sheets (lanscape). The original document (a5paper) was 23 pages long, including the title page. In the booklet, I wanted the text to begin on an odd page, so I had to insert a blank page, and I wanted a blank sheet after the end of the text (which makes a total of 26 pages). As you print 4 A5 pages for each A4 paper sheet, you have to set the signature to the first multiple of 4 after the total number of pages – in the present case, 28. So I used this short code:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt, twoside]{book}%

\usepackage{pdfpages}

\begin{document}

\includepdf[pages = {1,{},2-23},signature=28,landscape]{4LittleChildrenA5.pdf}

\end{document}

Added: As @Schweinebacke pointed, we can use the booklet option to \includepdf, which makes the package calculate the signature in your place. In the example I've given, you obtain the same result with the code:

\includepdf[pages = {1,{},2-23,{}}, booklet,landscape]{4LittleChildrenA5.pdf}

Here is how the booklet begins and ends:

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Bernard
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  • You should use option booklet if you always want one signature for all pages. BTW: The OP wants A4 pages on A3 paper. Maybe you could adapt the example code. – Schweinebacke Feb 17 '17 at 12:33
  • @Schweinebacke: I didn't forget the the O.P. wants A4 pages on A3 paper, but I preferred to explain what I really did. He/she will to to replace in the code a4paper with a3paper, and to compile the original document as a4paper in the place of a5paper. As to the option booklet I didn't have to use it. – Bernard Feb 17 '17 at 12:40
  • Without option booklet you always need to change the signature value, if the number of pages changes. If you use booklet instead of signature you don't need. pdfpages will do the job for you. Wouldn't that be better? And if you post an individual answer to the question instead of referring one of the various already existing, wouldn't it be better to answer the question instead of showing something that has to be adapted to answer the question? – Schweinebacke Feb 17 '17 at 12:46
  • I've just tested it, and added this code. I had to add a final blank page in pages= (which was included with signature=28 instead of 24). – Bernard Feb 17 '17 at 13:03