I am using Scribus to produce an invitation. The invitation is A6 in size, and I would like to tile the document so that it fits 4 times onto A4, thus maximising my printer! I can then cut out the A6 invitations from the A4 page.
I've found the command pdfposter (I'm on Ubuntu), but I'm not sure that will do the trick...
Any hints, pointers, ideas or scripts out there?
You can use the pdfnup program from the PDFjam suite (which is packaged for Ubuntu). If you have the original pages in a document containing multiple A6-sized papers named a6.pdf, the following command should do the job of arranging four original pages per one A4 page:
pdfnup --nup 2x2 --no-landscape --paper a4paper --noautoscale true --outfile a4.pdf a6.pdf
If you need to create the source file by repeating a single original page four times, the pdfjoin program from the same package will help you there:
pdfjoin --outfile a6.pdf original.pdf original.pdf original.pdf original.pdf
Adobe Reader allows you to tile a PDF at time of printing. You won't need to modify the original file.
Edit:
If you want to create a new PDF containing the tiled pages you can use Acrobat Reader to print back to a PDF writer such as Adobe Acrobat or CutePDF Writer.
The accepted answer didn't work for me. In order for me to get the same A6 page displayed into 4, equal sized quadrants, on a single A4, I had to use the pdfnup command with multiple a6.pdf arguments. e.g.
pdfnup --nup 2x2 --no-landscape --paper a4paper --noautoscale true --outfile a4.pdf a6.pdf a6.pdf a6.pdf a6.pdf
The other command with pdfjoin also didn't produce the desired results.
