I would like to convert this manual into a PDF that is easier to print with standard A4 paper and printers.
The pages in the manual are very thin: 74 × 140 mm (W×H), much smaller than a A4 page (whose dimensions are 210 × 297 mm). I would like to have three of them on a A4 page in landscape orientation. Here is a drawing:
manual pages
/ | \
.----V-------V-------V----.
|.~~~~~~~.~~~~~~~.~~~~~~~.| <- A4 page
|| pag | pag | pag ||
|| | | ||
|| 1 | 2 | 3 ||
|`~~~~~~~'~~~~~~~'~~~~~~~'|
`-------------------------'
I tried using the "print on multiple pages" functionality of evince and okular, but to no avail: they do not allow an odd number of pages to be merged in a single printed page, only powers of two.
How can I generate a PDF where the original thin pages assembled to so have three of them in a A4 page in landscape orientation?
LibreOffice Writer
to compose a landscape page with text arranged in three columns (Format->Page
,Format->Columns
) and then performFile->Export as PDF
?