Several pages on one sheet
Half the paper for the same reading, as long as you accept smaller type.
Result
These files are processed locally. Nothing is uploaded.
How it works
Choose the layout
2, 4, 6 or 9 to a sheet, with the paper and gutter you want.
Add the pages or images
They fill the cells in order, left to right and top to bottom.
Print, and cut if you want to
Cut along the gutter to get separate pages, or leave the sheet whole.
Two-up is the standard way to halve a stack of reading, and four-up is what lecture handouts have always used. The trade is linear and unavoidable: four pages on one sheet means each is a quarter of the size, so text set for A5 becomes hard to read before you reach six-up.
Cells are identical and evenly spaced by construction, and the gutter between them is set in millimetres so a two-up sheet can be cut down the middle into two A5 pages without losing an edge.
Frequently asked questions
Which n-up should I use for reading?
Two-up is comfortable for most documents. Four-up works for slides, which are already large-type, and for documents you are skimming rather than reading. Below four-up, body text set at 11 pt is usually too small on A4 to read without effort.
Can I cut the sheet into separate pages afterwards?
Yes, and that is what the gutter is for. Set it to zero to cut along the exact boundary, or to a few millimetres to leave a margin on each half. With zero gutter, cut slightly inside the line to avoid trimming into either page.
Are images scaled or cropped to fit the cells?
Scaled to fit inside the cell, preserving the aspect ratio, so nothing is cropped. The empty space around a mismatched aspect ratio is left white rather than filled by stretching the picture.
Does two-up on A4 give me A5 pages?
Yes, exactly — two 148.5 × 210 mm cells on a 210 × 297 mm sheet, so cutting the sheet in half gives two true A5 pages. That is the reason two-up looks so familiar: it is how A5 booklets have always been printed.