Re Printing a booklet

Re: Printing a booklet

In article <pan.2009.09.30.16.56.21@lutrina>,
Lutrin  <elicona@olympo.it> wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:19:48 +0200, José ci disse:
>
>> Dear friends
>[...]
>> I want to print this so I can restore the original book, which means:
>> 40 , 1
>> 2 , 39
>> 38 , 3
>> [.....]
>> 4 , 37
>> 
>> Can this be done?
>[...]
>
>oh yes, a simpliest way is using
>
>*pdfbklt*
>- http://simurl.com/riwsis
>
>in windows and in Linux (via wine)
>
>syntax:
>
>pdfbklt -l -b A4 -p2s input.pdf 
>
>PLEASE!!! take in mind that pdfbklt will overwrite your source pdf so it 
>is better operate with a copy of your pdf so you can eventually do a 
>second try

Just tried this on a Win32 platform and it works quite well except ...

I was a bit suspicious of the fact that it processed a huge document
almost instantaneously. I knew there would be payback somewhere, and then
I found it.

The printing times were astronomical - so much so that I gave up and let
the printer driver do the n-up formatting instead. I assume the output of
pdfbklt is such that the PDF interpreter does all the work.