Printing A5 or smaller copies of Flyers
Sometimes half sized versions of flyers are wanted for handing out. Unfortunately it is not straightforward to produce two of these per sheet. The following instructions assume the flyer is a single page pdf document and the system is Windows. If the document is more than one page long it is possible to produce multiple copies of the pages in any order using the trick described below for producing A6 sheets
Metod 1
- Open the document and start the Print dialog
- Set copies to half the number of actual A5 copies needed, it counts pages
- Click Multiple
- In Pages per sheet press Custom and select 2
- Press Print
- Only one A5 will be printed per sheet. Take the output and put it back in so the other half of each sheet will be printed
- Print as above but just one copy in case the sheets weren't turned round right!
- Print the rest of the copies
Method 2
- Open the document and start the Print dialog
- Set the Printer to Microsoft Print to PDF
- Set Copies to 2
- Press Print
- A dialog will appear for where to put the output
- Select a suitable place e.g. the desktop and some name e.g. temp2
- Press Save
- Close the document and open the new file, e.g. temp2.pdf
- Start the Print dialog
- Set the Printer back to the actual printer
- Set copies to half the number of actual A5 copies needed, it counts pages
- Click Multiple
- In Pages per sheet press Custom and select 2
- Press Print
Printing four A6 per sheet
For four A6 flyers instead of two A5 use method 2 above and put 1,1,1,1 in pages and choose the default 2 by 2 under Multiple.
Unfortunately putting in 1,1 in pages to produce two A5 pages does not work if the document only has one page.