Re: plain TeX double-page layout?

Rodolfo Medina <[email protected]> writes:

> Rodolfo Medina <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I suppose it's easy in LaTeX but wonder if it's possible in plain TeX to have
>> a double-page layout, i.e. a big page with same height and double width of
>> the original which contains two pages together, one aside the other, of the
>> original file.  I'm sure it must be possible in plain TeX but can't have an
>> idea of how.  Thanks for any suggestion.  Otherwise, I'll have to get what I
>> want on the final PDF using some tools like qpdf or similar...  but
>> preserving the internal links of the PDF.
>
>
> Thanks to all that helped with this interesting problem: here's what I've
> worked out of it: pdfjam performs perfectly the result simply with, e.g.:
>
>  $ pdfjam o_sole_mio.pdf '{},1-' -o o_sole_mio2up.pdf --nup 2x1 --papersize '{34.8cm,19.5cm}'
>
> where the paper's width is for me double the original wehereas the height
> remains the same as the original filepage.  This solution unfortunately does
> *not* preserve possible internal hyperlinks existing in the input PDF.
>
> On the other hand, to do the job natively inside and within TeX fantastic
> world, you have this (suggested by Daniel):
>
>   https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/2up
>
> that I'm still testing and looks promising and seems to preserve the original
> links.


...And now I found a link-preserving PDF-manipulation solution: the program
sejda: www.sejda.com: I tested it in the online version and it seems to work
fine: I'm going to install it on my Debian Linux.

Rodolfo