The complex layout of columns (for cheatsheet)

Question

Objective: to A4 paper in four columns on two sides to print text. Requirements: 1) sheet is cut into the column (ie on both sides of the sheet of the border must be the same), and 2) the most difficult, the numbering of the columns after cutting must go in sequence (ie, quarters has an associated text).

Illustrative example. The original list, side A: | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 4 |, side B: | 5 | 6 | 7 | | 8 |. Printed: | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | and | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 |. After cutting, we have four quarters numbered columns | 1 | 2 |, | 3 | 4 | etc.

Did this through pstops, but the pdf shows only three columns.

Above is a screenshot PS_View. As a result, when converting to pdf using ps2pdf in the output file there is no lower "column", just an empty space.

What should I do to all 4 "columns" (page) displayed on the output sheet?

Page layout options in tex file:

\documentclass[6pt]{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=74.25mm, paperheight=210mm, margin=1cm]{geometry}

The resulting input.ps and pdf looks as it should. Process it:

pstops -w74.25mm -h210mm -d1 8:6R(0h,0w)+4R(0h,1w)+2R(0h,2w)+0R(0h,3w),1R(0h,0w)+3R(0h,1w)+5R(0h,2w)+7R(0h,3w) input.ps maket.ps

.PS output is shown in the picture above.

Update

More low, in answers, @Tom has pushed on packet usage pdfpages. The task dares as follows. Beforehand generated pdf with the necessary page size it is processed by other tex-file:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,
    landscape % sheet orientation
    ]{article}
\usepackage[final]{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdfset{
    nup=4x1 % 4 pages are allocated on one sheet as 4 columns in one row
    ,frame % to frame page with the frame
    }
\includepdf[pages={1,3,5,7}]{input.pdf}
\includepdf[pages={8,6,4,2}]{input.pdf}
...
\end{document}

Numbers in a \includepdf specify a sequence of pages on sheet. Further in a command numbering walks with 8.

Result:

Answer 1

I don't know why your pstops toolchain doesn't work, but as you want to end up with a PDF anyway, why not use PDFjam?

Something like

pdfjam --outfile maket.pdf --a4paper input.pdf 1,3,5,7,8,6,4,2