PDF N-up and Booklet Maker
Put 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 or 16 PDF pages on one sheet, turn a PDF into a fold-and-staple booklet, or print one page as a poster across several sheets.
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How to print several PDF pages per sheet or as a booklet
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Open the PDF
Drop or select a PDF file
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Choose a layout
Pick N-up, Booklet, Cut and stack or Poster
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Adjust and check the preview
Set pages per sheet, page order, paper, margins and the pages to use; the preview updates as you go
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Download and print
Download the PDF and print it at 100% scale, double-sided with short-edge flip for booklets
Printing several pages per sheet, booklets and posters
Which layout to use
Use N-up (2-up, 4-up and so on) to save paper on handouts, lecture slides and drafts you read on paper: 2 pages per sheet keeps text readable, 4 is fine for slides, 9 or 16 is for skimming. Use Booklet when you want something that opens like a book: a program, a zine, a manual or a short story, printed on both sides and stapled in the middle. Use Cut and stack when the sheets will be cut apart, such as flash cards, tickets or small flyers, and you want the pieces to come out in order. Use Poster when one page should be bigger than your printer can print, like a chart, a floor plan or a sign.
Pages per sheet and page order
Rows, left to right fills the top row first, like reading English. Columns, top to bottom fills the left column first, which suits slides you read down. The right-to-left options start in the top-right corner for Japanese, Arabic or Hebrew documents. With orientation set to Auto, the tool tries portrait and landscape paper and every grid that fits the count, and keeps the one that prints your pages largest. That is why 2 portrait pages go side by side on a landscape sheet and 2 slides stack on a portrait one. Each page is scaled to fit its cell without changing its shape. Pages with a different size or a /Rotate setting are turned the way a PDF viewer shows them.
How to print a booklet
The booklet PDF alternates the front and back of each sheet: 8 pages become sheet 1 with 8 and 1 on the front and 2 and 7 on the back, then sheet 2 with 6 and 3, then 4 and 5. Print it double-sided and choose Flip on short edge (sometimes called short-edge binding), at 100% or Actual size. Long-edge flip turns every back side upside down. If your printer has no duplex, print the odd pages of the file, put the stack back in the tray, and print the even pages; do one test sheet first to see which way to turn the paper. Fold the whole stack in half and staple along the fold. For a book bound on the right, such as Japanese manga or Arabic text, choose right binding.
Why blank pages appear
A folded sheet always carries 4 pages, so the page count is rounded up to a multiple of 4. A 10-page PDF becomes 12 pages with 2 blank ones. By default they go at the end. Choose Before the last page to keep your last page as the back cover. If you set sheets per booklet, the document is split into several booklets (signatures) that you fold separately and stack, which works better than one thick fold for long documents; only the last one can be shorter.
Cut and stack
With 4 pages per sheet and 12 pages, sheet 1 carries pages 1, 4, 7 and 10, sheet 2 carries 2, 5, 8 and 11, and sheet 3 carries 3, 6, 9 and 12. Print single-sided, keep the stack in order, and cut the whole stack along the gaps. Put the pile with page 1 on the pile with page 2, and so on: the pages now run 1 to 12.
Poster printing and overlap
Poster scales the page to fill a grid of sheets, such as 2 by 2 A4 for a poster a little smaller than A2. Most printers cannot print to the edge, so each sheet keeps a margin, and the overlap repeats a strip of the image on neighbouring sheets so you can trim one sheet and lay it over the next without a gap. Cut marks show where to trim; the short ticks in the margin show where the edge of the neighbouring sheet goes. Each sheet is labelled A1, A2, B1 and so on by row and column. Print at 100% scale, not Fit to page, or the pieces will not line up.
What is kept and what is not
Pages are placed as vector graphics, so text stays sharp and searchable, and nothing is rasterized. Links, comments and form fields are not carried over; flatten a filled form first if you need its answers on paper. Everything happens in your browser and the file is never uploaded. Password-protected PDFs have to be unlocked first.