Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing?

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On 29/08/2025 20:44, Marion wrote:
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> Nowadays, I don't think there is any use for the distiller, is
> there?
Not as such, but there is still a need for utilities like pdftops and 
pstopdf. A company needing to print cheques to send to their clients 
wanted to run the job on a laser printer with a dual feed tray that 
would let them print the first page on a specially cut 396mm × 210mm 
paper (ie 1.33 times as high as A4) but all the remaining pages on 
standard A4. The PDF remittances were generated from the accounting 
system and modifying that would have taken ludicrous amounts of time and 
money, so I wrote a postprocessor that ran each document through 
pdftops, then through a sed script that found the first page change 
instruction and converted it to a paper-tray change plus the page 
change, and back again at the end, then ran it through pstopdf and 
printed it. Worked perfectly for a few years until the death of cheques. 
Not something you need a lot, but I was glad it was possible.

Peter

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Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-28 01:12 +0000
  Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-28 03:38 +0100
    Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-28 22:15 +0000
      Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-29 03:51 +0100
        Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-29 04:07 +0000
          Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-29 20:16 +0100
            Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-29 19:44 +0000
              Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> - 2025-11-05 11:28 +0000
              Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> - 2026-04-18 23:03 +0100
                Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-19 00:39 +0200
        Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-29 23:01 +0200
    Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-29 22:56 +0200
  Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2025-11-19 14:42 +0300

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