Pagecraft

booklet

Make a PDF booklet

Impose a PDF for saddle-stitch printing, so it folds into a booklet.

Reads
a PDF — application/pdf
Writes
one file — PDFs
Tool page
/pdf-booklet

Example

Impose eight pages so that folding the printed stack gives a booklet.

Given

  • zine.pdf — an ordinary PDF of 8 pages

From code

            import { loadDocument, runOperation } from '@pagecraft/core';

const zine = await loadDocument({ bytes, name: 'zine.pdf' });

const [output] = await runOperation('booklet', [zine]);

From a shell

            pagecraft booklet zine.pdf

What comes back

One PDF of 4 pages.

This example is run by the test suite. If it stopped being true, the build would fail.

Options

size--size

string, one of

Sheet size

The paper you print on. Two pages go side by side on each side of it.

Default: 'a4'

  • a3 — A3
  • a4 — A4
  • a5 — A5
  • a6 — A6
  • b5 — B5
  • letter — Letter
  • legal — Legal
  • tabloid — Tabloid
  • executive — Executive

margin--margin

number

Margin

Default: 0

unit--unit

string, one of

Measured in

Default: 'mm'

  • mm — Millimetres
  • cm — Centimetres
  • in — Inches
  • pt — Points

pages--pages

string, a page selection: '1-3, 7, 9-', 'even', 'last'

Pages

Which pages go into the booklet, and in what order.

Default: 'all'

What it cannot do

  • The sheets come out in printing order. Feed them through as one stack, then fold and staple.
  • A bookmark follows its page to the sheet it landed on. Links and form fields do not: two pages now share a sheet, and there is nowhere correct to put them.
  • The booklet reads left to right.