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gtsolid
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April 23, 2016
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2 pages per sheet, double sided

  • April 23, 2016
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hello

i do not own a double-sided printer, but i want to print 2 pages per sheet. i will manually turn the papers.

if i use the printer mask i should key all couples of page.

so i would to substitute all odd pages for example with white ones, and the same for even.

i would have 2 pdf to print.

how can i do this?

3 replies

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July 15, 2024

Reviving an old thread here, but there is an easier way to do this on a Mac than needing to manually mask pages, it just involves ripping the PDF into a printer ready format before sending to actually print.  Try the steps below.

1 - Right click and open the PDF in an app other than Acrobat (eg Safari).

2 - Go to File > Print

3 - Underneath the Page Orientation, select the Layout option from the dropdown
4 - Set the Pages Per sheet to '2', and the Layout direction to Horizontal

5 - Click the PDF dropdown in the lower left corner, and save the document to a new PDF file.

6 - Open the newly created PDF in Acrobat

7 - Each sheet should now contain 2 pages of the original document, and can be printed normally.  If your printer does not have a duples funciton, print the odd pages in the stack, then rotate the paper and re-print for even.

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 23, 2016
  • print the odd pages only
  • manually turn the papers
  • print the even pages only (check the entry reverse pages)
gtsolid
gtsolidAuthor
Known Participant
April 24, 2016

i cannot, because i want to print 2 pages per page (4 in totale per sheet)

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 24, 2016

Before printing you can create a PDF file with 2 pages per sheet.

April 23, 2016

Hi ,

Double sided printing is done if your printer supports this functionality.

Please check this document.

Print double-sided | Adobe Acrobat, Reader https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/print-double-sided-acrobat-reader.html

Regards

Sukrit Dhingra

gtsolid
gtsolidAuthor
Known Participant
April 23, 2016

hi.

my printer is not double-sided, so i would to find a manual alternative (blank pages or other)