# CD Booklet: variable margins between pages in pdfpages [closed]

I am trying to print a CD booklet, that will be stapled in the center of the pages.

To that end I am printing the pages double-sided on a4 paper and cut them.

When there are more than a few physical sheets of paper going into the booklet, the edges are not aligned any more - due to the folding. I would like to "correct" for that by increasing the delta between the pages from the 'inside' sheets to the 'outside' sheets.

Just to clarify: What I would like to achieve is this:

Innermost sheet:

+-------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                       |
|                                                       |
|      +-------------------++-------------------+       |
|      |                   ||                   |       |
|      |                   ||                   |       |
|      |                   ||                   |       |
|      |                   ||                   |       |
|      |                   ||                   |       |
|      |                   ||                   |       |
|      |                   ||                   |       |
|      |                   ||                   |       |
|      |                   ||                   |       |
|      |                   ||                   |       |
|      +-------------------++-------------------+       |
|                                                       |
|                                                       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+


Outermost sheet (the cover):

+-------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                       |
|                                                       |
|   +-------------------+      +-------------------+    |
|   |                   |      |                   |    |
|   |                   |      |                   |    |
|   |                   |      |                   |    |
|   |                   |      |                   |    |
|   |                   |      |                   |    |
|   |                   |      |                   |    |
|   |                   |      |                   |    |
|   |                   |      |                   |    |
|   |                   |      |                   |    |
|   |                   |      |                   |    |
|   +-------------------+      +-------------------+    |
|                                                       |
|                                                       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+


As I print two-sided, I would like to increase the delta between the pages at every second page only.

Since I do not have any experience in this, I do not know how I have to increase the space (linearly, quadratically, ...). So it would be super-cool, if this even was a parameter.

Here is a sample booklet to play with:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[papersize={120.7mm,120.7mm},
layoutsize={120.7mm,120.7mm}]{geometry}

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}

\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext

\end{document}


And here is a version of the to-be-cut booklet without the dynamically increasing delta between the pages:

\batchmode
\documentclass[a4paper,landscape]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{pdfpages}

\begin{document}
\includepdfmerge[booklet=true,noautoscale=true,turn=false]{dummybooklet.pdf,-}
\end{document}


I got this as temporary output from the excellent pdfjam suite called like this:

 pdfjam --no-tidy --a4paper --landscape --booklet true --noautoscale true --turn false --outfile dummybooklet-book.pdf dummybooklet.pdf

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## closed as unclear what you're asking by Kurt, Harish Kumar, Jesse, Mico, moeweSep 26 '15 at 6:52

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Your given MWE gives not something like that back you described in your two sketches. What is the problem with the available templates for cd booklets? have you tried some? Which one? Result? Where is the problem? Or please make your question clear. – Kurt Sep 12 '15 at 20:31