I just found this very cool package which lets you easily print two pages in one. I have only tested it for articles and reports and it works perfectly for articles. Using the document-class report, the content is perfectly structured, but not the table of contents, which still takes the entire page. The package also messes up with the page numbers whenever you start a new chapter. So it basically only works with sections, but not chapters.
First tell Latex to turn the page to landscape:
\documentclass[a4paper, landscape]{article}
Next include the necessary packages:
\usepackage{2in1, lscape}
The latter is needed, as you not only want the paper layout, but also the content to be in “landscape-mode”.
Now add your document content and have fun printing (and saving the planet 😉 )!
The standard distributions have this package included, but just in case you can get it from here.
You can rearrange pages with the pgfpages package as well.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage{pgfpages} \pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[a4paper,landscape] \begin{document} \lipsum[1-20] \end{document}Yes, I thought that there must be a package doing similar things, but I hadn’t found it. Now I have, thanks!
both the tips from the original post and from the comment are helpful and a good idea.
the original tip needed some tweaking with the width of \includegraphics (\columnwidth instead of \textwidth) and the second tip doesn’t play nice with \usepackage{hyperref}, but that’s a minor problem for printing…
I was going to recommend the PDFPages package, too. It’s got a ton of options for including PDFs in documents, and printing multiples-per-page, making it flexible and very useful. Here is the opening of its documentation:
“When creating PDF documents, it is sometimes useful to insert pages of other, external PDF documents. This can be done with the \includegraphics command from the graphics package. But a simple \includegraphics{doc.pdf} normally produces ‘Overfull \hbox’ and ‘Overfull \vbox’ warnings, because the size of the inserted pages does not match the print space.
The pdfpages package makes it easy to insert pages of external PDF documents without worrying about the print space. Here are some features of the pdfpages package: Several logical pages can be arranged onto each sheet of paper and the layout can be changed individually. A lot of hypertext operations are supported, like links to the inserted pages, links to the original PDF document, threads, etc.”
Another option, if you’re on Linux, is the pdfnup command line tool:
http://linux.die.net/man/1/pdfnup
This tool is part of the PDFjam bundle. It puts multiple pages in a PDF onto one page in a new PDF. Handy if you don’t have the source code, or your source isn’t LaTeX to begin with.
And the equivalent script for ps files: psbind.
http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~ken/psbind