[cups.general] Re: Can CUPS print two-sided documents 2-up?

[Ambrose Li]

If you are working with PDF files, you might try the "pdftk" command.
It will, however, generate a new PDF file and I am not sure if the
metadata in the PDF is 100% preserved. With some effort, pdftk can
also be used to rearrange the pages to make a booklet.

If they are Postscript files, catting the files together should do the trick.

2006/1/9, Tom Moertel <tom at moertel.com>:
> For what I want, being able to inject a blank initial page would indeed do the trick.  Is there any way, for example, I could keep a blank 1-page document handy and use it to insert a blank half-spread?  I've tried the following, but the second document seems to be forced onto a new spread, undoing the desired effect:
>
>   lpr -o number-up=2 blank.pdf two-sided-doc.pdf