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Booklet PDF

Imposes pages for a folded booklet on a landscape Letter or A4 sheet. It runs in this tab. The file is not uploaded.

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What this fold changes

Booklet PDF takes one PDF and one control named paper. The values are letter and a4, and letter is the default. The worker builds landscape sheets for a saddle fold. Letter landscape is 792 by 612 points. A4 landscape is 841.89 by 595.28 points. A margin of 36 points sits on every edge, and a 36 point gutter sits between the two slots. The page count is padded up to a multiple of 4, and a missing slot stays blank. On a four-page file the first sheet shows page 4 on the left and page 1 on the right. The second sheet shows page 2 on the left and page 3 on the right. Each source page is drawn with embedPage inside its slot. pdf-lib 1.17 reads the media box, so a rotation of 90 or 270 swaps width and height before the fit. The scale is the smaller ratio of the slot to the source, so the aspect stays. This order is rearranged for folding. Two-up PDF keeps reading order on a landscape sheet. Four-up PDF uses a portrait sheet with four slots. Annotations and form fields are not copied. The download is one PDF named booklet.pdf, not a zip.

The fold runs in this tab with the open-source workers. The file is not uploaded. Open the network panel, drop a PDF, and that file should not appear as an upload. Closing the tab drops the copy. The browser downloads booklet.pdf. The Word page at /pdf-to-word uploads.

There is no page cap on this tool. The tab has to hold the file. There is no account on this page. This page does not need a pass. The day pass is $6, charged once, for 24 hours, and it does not renew. The year is $60 for 365 days. Neither charge is required to impose a booklet here. The 20-page server cap is not this tool. That cap belongs to PDF to Word, OCR, and heavy compress.

An empty file fails with "This PDF could not be read." A PDF with no pages fails with "This PDF has no pages." Any paper value other than letter or a4 fails with "Choose Letter or A4." A locked PDF stops with "Expected instance of PDFDict, but got instance of undefined", because the worker cannot read the encrypted page. Unlock PDF is the separate page.

Steps

  1. Drop the file. It stays in this tab.
  2. Set the one option on the page, if it has one.
  3. Download the result. Closing the tab drops the copy.

Questions

Does a booklet crop, stretch, or keep reading order?

No crop and no stretch. Each source page is scaled to fit one half of a landscape Letter or A4 sheet and centered in that slot. The aspect stays. The worker does not downsample images. The order is the fold, not the reading order of two-up.

Does a booklet upload the PDF?

No. It runs in this tab. The file is not uploaded. Open the network panel, drop the file, and the PDF should not appear as an upload. Closing the tab drops the copy. You get one file named booklet.pdf. The original file on the computer is not rewritten. PDF to Word is the page that uploads.

Do the words stay selectable?

Yes, when the source had standard-font text. embedPage keeps that text in the drawing, so the words stay selectable. A page that says Hello still yields Hello after the fold. The tool does not turn the page into a picture. Annotations and form fields are not copied onto the new sheet.

Does this page need a pass?

No. This page does not need a pass. There is no account and no page cap on this local tool. The day pass is $6, charged once, for 24 hours, and it does not renew. The year is $60 for 365 days. Neither charge is required to impose a booklet here. The 20-page server cap is not this tool. A pass does not change Letter or A4.

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