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I am preparing a tutorial worksheet for my students and would like to include an option to let me compile it with a blank page every 2nd page, so that I can then print it 2 pages per sheet in landscape and have space for working out on the right hand side.

I also want to be able to compile it normally and also still be able to make changes, so I don't want to manually insert the pages with an \ifdefined switch, because if I make changes, then the place where it should be inserted would change.

At the moment, I am just using pdftk to insert blank pages manually, but it would be nice to be able to do it automatically when compiling.

guskenny83
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    https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/409249/134144 could be useful. – leandriis Mar 18 '20 at 12:32
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    see the pgfpages package (note pgfpages not pdfpages). It is described in secion 91 of the tikz/pgf manual. Section 91.1 shows the example you are after – daleif Mar 18 '20 at 12:32

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You can insert blank page automatically by using atbegshi package. Check out this code

\documentclass{article}
%
\usepackage{atbegshi}
\AtBeginShipoutFirst{\AtBeginShipout{\AtBeginShipoutOriginalShipout\null}}
%
\usepackage{lipsum}
%
\begin{document}
    \lipsum % dummy text
    \lipsum % dummy text
\end{document}

If you print the output on a double pages per sheet, you get: enter image description here enter image description here enter image description here

hesham
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