Recently, a colleague of mine has done his own book binding. He has used LibreOffice. I am wondering if LaTeX could be used and if it could provide more assistance than LibreOffice.
The problem that I see, if I understand the binding process correctly, is that with 8 folios per stack, the outermost folio in the first stack contains pages number 1, 32 on one side and 2, 31 on the other side, etc.
Now, I am wondering, if LaTeX (or any of available modules) can help with this task? Basically, can LaTeX help with ordering the pages on the folios so that printing them is easy as pie?
UPDATE
This question is not exactly the same as Printing a book question. The other question wants to staple all of the folios of the document together at once. I want to be able to build sections from 8 folios (32 pages) and bind them together by sewing.
pdfpages
package for that. It can use anup
key.signature
key which is crucial here. Thenup
key will just put, say, 4 pages per sheet or whatever. Thesignature
key permits automated ordering of the kind the OP wants.nup
, only the signature (trying to make a personal edition of Edward Lear's ‘The story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World’ as beautiful as I could…).