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Any of you has experience with DIY printing of books? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are some books and long texts that I would like to print since reading on electronic devices is distracting. Anyone of you has does this before?

I remember in college there were talks of how some print shops could print textbooks for you given the pdf but I never had to do that.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You need desktop publishing software to format/set the pages.

Scribus is a popular and free desktop publishing software application that can do what you are asking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was able to do this by first generating a regular PDF using a pipeline of shenanigans including article-extractor, pandoc, tectonic. Then used a script called pdfbook2 that comes included with texlive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That seems like a lot of work. I used Scribus to set zines and also print badges.