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Hello All!

I've seen some discussions around here about the above topic, but with
few details. I have fpTeX-0.3 installed on NT. It comes with 2up
package, version 1.2, dated 93/01/28.

First, I tried ps utils, with the command line:

psbook my.ps | psnup -2 | pstops "2:0,1U(21cm,29.7cm)" > mynew.ps

It did work, but what I did not like is that it rescaled all the fonts
so that the output looked rather small and hardly legible.

What I really want is that TeX somehow reformats the text, keeping
original sizes, but instead of typesetting for A4 format, it does 2 A5
pages on one A4 page. Additionally, but I could live without that, it
would be nice if it could also typeset pages in such an order that I
can print the whole thing double-sided and then simply fold the
printout and have my booklet.

I tried 2up package that came with fpTeX, but it gave me many errors
that I don't understand as I'm only a beginner with TeX/LaTeX. The
document is written in LaTeX, and in the preamble I have:

\documentclass[10pt, a4paper]{book}
\topmargin 0pt
\textheight 220 truemm
\textwidth 145 truemm
\oddsidemargin 0pt
\evensidemargin 0pt
\pagestyle{headings}                                        
\raggedbottom

\usepackage{2up}
\source{\magstep0}{210mm}{297mm}
\target{\magstep0}{297mm}{210mm}
\targetlayout{booklet,twosided}

When I run:*my.tex
I get errors. The first couple of errors look like:

-- quote from my.log ---

] [3] [4
! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 47.
<inserted text>
                \fi
l.47 \end{document}

?

! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of \write.
<inserted text>
                }
l.47 \end{document}

?

! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of \write.
<inserted text>
                }
l.47 \end{document}
-- end of quote ---

Errors like this continue all the way while I'm pressing <ENTER>.

If I comment out section in preamble which invokes 2up package,*
runs smoothly, with no complaints. By the way, 2up package was
installed in texmf/tex/latex/seminar tree, so I assumed it was meant
to work with latex.

Any hints, suggestions or maybe pointers to a newer version or some
other package?

Thanks in advance,

Milan

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In the preamble I put
\usepackage[a5paper,dvips]{geometry}

To typeset the doc on an a5 paper

psresize -Pa5 -pa4 my.ps | psbook | psnup -2 > mynew.ps

It worked for me. You first scale the doc up with psresize and scale it
down when putting 2 pages together.  
I once experienced problems with the margins but putting -Pa4 as an
option with psnup solved that.

Regards,
Mogens