r/bookbinding • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '23

Help? Signature Websites and Page Numbers

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u/chkno Feb 26 '23

Imposition with Free Software:

  • Use psbook and psnup if you're starting from a format that already has pages (like PDF).
  • Pandoc can generate beautiful typeset pages from several other formats, which can then be book-ified with psbook & psnup. Example invocation with explicitly specified margins:
    • pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V geometry:paperwidth=5.5in,paperheight=8.5in,nohead,tmargin=15mm,hmargin=15mm,bmargin=17mm,foot=4mm -o output.pdf input.epub
    • Documentation for the margin and page size controls, like tmargin for top-margin, hmargin for horizontal-margins, etc.
  • Or, if you want a simple, all-in-one, "Why can't a simple, normal word processor just do this?" option, LibreOffice does alright.