Print PDF to booklet

Linux

Boomaga: Virtal printer with booklet option. Easiest of all in limited testing. Configure→Settings→Printer has duplexer→Flip on short edge. FOSS.
pdfbook2: "Create print-ready PDF files from some INPUT PDF files for booklet printing." FOSS.
BookletImposer / pdfimposer: "Basic imposition on PDF documents, especially designed to work on booklets." FOSS.
Print a booklet: Manual instructions from Ubuntu. FOSS.

Preview: Some duplex-capable printers offer "Print As Booklet" at the bottom of the print dialog's Layout → Pages per Sheet drop-down. Free.
Create Booklet 2: "Puts your pages side by side re-sorted for booklet printing, no matter what printer you have." $19.99.
Quentin Stafford-Fraser's Automator workflow. Free.

Bookbinder JS: "A Javascript-based app for formatting PDFs for bookbinding—a process called imposition." FOSS.
PDF Snake: "Prepress software for performing document imposition." Subscription/limited freeware: "Users with neither an active free trial nor an active subscription can download one file from PDFSnake.app every 8 hours."

Montax Imposer Free: "Impose pages and images to PDF on one or more final sheets." Shareware/limited freeware: "The maximum size of the resulting sheet in this version is A4 and the number of positions is limited to 4."

PDF Booklet: "Create booklets from existing PDF files." Linux/Windows. FOSS.
PrintDF: "Small program which creates printable booklets from PDF documents." Java/Windows. FOSS.
BookletCreator: "Reorders pages so that after printing and folding the pages, a small book is created." macOS/Windows. $19.95.
Adobe Acrobat: "Printing a multipage document as a booklet is possible with Acrobat or Reader, which arranges two pages per sheet. After collating, folding, and stapling the double-sided sheets, you'll have a booklet with the pages in the right order." macOS/Windows. Subscription (Acrobat) / free (Reader).

❧ 2025-09-30