[Coco] Printing OS-9 Manuals

[Robert Gault]

BookWorm wrote:
> Now that all those manuals are online, I've been downloading and printing a lot 
> of them. Even double sided printing is easy. But how do I print the little 
> ones? Most of Tandy's OS-9 manuals, including the OS itself, should be printed 
> two pages to one sheet, but I'm having a little trouble figuring out how.
> 
> I want to print, for example, pages 1 and 3 on one side, 2 and 4 on the other. 
> Using Acrobat reader 7.05, I can't just pick what pages to print, and printing 
> odd or even pages in a 4 page range gets them out of order. How do I keep them 
> in order, and print exactly what I want?
> 
> 

After looking at one of these files, GettingStarted.pdf, it is clear the 
person that created the pdf file took liberties with the page order. 
There is no way to print this particular file so that the pages will 
exist as they do in the original.

The only way I can see to double side print this and make any sense 
would be to capture each pdf page as a PrintScreen image, paste into a 
graphics program, split each image into separate pages, and reassemble 
them so that double sided printing puts pages where they should be.

This really should have been dealt with by the person who created the 
pdf file. However, it seems clear that the intent was to make the file 
readable on a computer screen with no thought to printing double sided. 
There is no way to maintain the correct page order for both printing and 
screen use in these files.