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Impose several PDF pages onto one sheet — 2, 4, 6, 9 or 16 up — for cheaper printing, a contact sheet, or a folded booklet. Choose the paper size, portrait or landscape, the margin, and whether to draw borders or crop marks between pages. Order can run left to right or down the column, which is the difference between a usable booklet and an unreadable one. Nothing is uploaded, there is no watermark, and the output is a real PDF you can print or save.
To put multiple PDF pages on one sheet, choose 2, 4, 6, 9 or 16 up, pick the paper size and orientation, then download. Pages are imposed in order and borders are optional. No upload, no watermark.
Two-up in row order on landscape A4 is the standard saving: a 40-page report becomes 20 sheets. Set the margin to around 10 mm so the imposition is not flush to the edge, where most printers cannot print, and leave borders off unless you are cutting.
16-up in column order gives every page a thumbnail on two or three sheets. Flip through those instead of the original. This is how you spot a duplicated page or a blank one before sending the document anywhere.
Booklet imposition puts pages in the order that, once the stack is folded and stapled, reads correctly. It needs landscape sheets printed double-sided, flipped on the short edge. Plain row order produces a document that reads correctly on screen and not at all once folded.
Almost always the print dialog scaled the sheet. Set scale to 100% or actual size, and if the printer still adds hardware margins, they are unprintable areas on the device and no PDF tool can place ink there. Set a margin larger than the printer's unprintable edge and the problem disappears.
100%, or 'actual size'. Fit to page rescales the imposed sheet, which shifts every margin and can push content off the paper. If your printer dialog offers no actual-size option, set the scale to 100 manually rather than accepting a default.
Row order, left to right across the sheet. For a saddle-stitched booklet you also want to impose in booklet order, which alternates which side of the sheet each page lands on — choose booklet imposition rather than plain row order if you are folding the stack.
A 9-up or 16-up layout, usually column order, giving you a single page thumbnail of each document page. It is how you review 60 pages visually without printing 60 sheets.
Thin lines at the page corners that tell a guillotine where to cut between imposed pages. They are the difference between a clean trim and slightly ragged page edges, so they matter for anything you intend to cut.
Yes. Pages are scaled as vectors inside a new page, so text is redrawn at the new size rather than resampled. Printing at the right size gives you crisp output, not a blurred photograph of a page.
Yes, and it is often what you want. Landscape pages are rotated to fit the portrait sheet, or the sheet is set to landscape — the choice is explicit, because guessing wrong wastes a whole print run.
The page count divided by the number-up, rounded up, and the tool shows the sheet count before you download. A 61-page document at 4-up is 16 sheets, with the last one partly empty.
Yes. No account, no watermark, no upload — the imposed PDF is assembled locally and works offline.
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