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The following recipe was provided by Jurjen Bokma (j dot bokma at rug dot nl)
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for creating a neatly bound C++ Annotations book. He gave me one as a 2011
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X-mas present, and I think it's a great gift. Thanks, Jurjen!
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- gunzip makebook.sh.gz
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- Call the script like this:
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./makebook.sh --t7 -p2 cplusplus.pdf
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(t7 is for 7-sheet signatures, see below, and p2 is to prepend two
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empty pages, which you may or may not like/do)
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- Have the output, cplusplus_book.pdf, printed.
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For normal-size output, you need A3 paper.
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I use 60-gram paper, so I can keep all in one book.
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Print double-sided, short-edge-bind.
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- Separate the printout into bundles of 7 sheets.
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Don't mess up the order.
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- Fold every bundle neatly in half.
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- Take these folded signatures to a book binder, e.g.
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http://www.boekbinderijerends.nl and wait a few weeks,
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A bound book is made up of signatures, stacks of a small number n (e.g.
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7) of sheets double the size of the book's page, folded in half. Each of
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these signatures gets sewn into the book casing.
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So the A4 PDF being processed must be reshuffled so that the pages are
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printed on A3 paper, in signatures of n sheets formed by 4*n original
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pages. That is what the script does.
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This results in an A4 sized book. If you need other sizes, adapt accordingly.
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