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title: "Save x page per sheet PDF in python"
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date: Aug 2, 2015
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Reportlab is my go-to PDF library in `python`; however, it doesn't do multiple page layout well. The solution is to do regular multiple pages PDF with `reportlab`, then process that PDF file afterward to have any layout you want (2-page per sheet, 4-page per sheet, 9-page per sheet, ...)

What you need?

`pdfnup` -- it's available via `pip` but an ImportError always there. As a result, you need to download [that](https://bitbucket.org/deeplook/pdfnup/overview) and do install by yourself.

    $ python setup.py install

Simple enough. You also have a command line to work on too.

    >>> from pdfnup import generateNup
    >>>
    >>> generateNup("multiple-pages.pdf", 2, verbose=True)
    written: file-2up.pdf

There you go.