Re: DocBook - page multiples of four
Posted by
mojavelinux on
Jun 14, 2019; 9:07pm
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/DocBook-page-multiples-of-four-tp6701p6952.html
Agreed. This is what the media=prepress is all about.
> I don't know if there's a way to add blanks at the end
Just add manual page breaks using:
<<<
{zwsp}
<<<
{zwsp}
(You could also use another pdf program like hexapdf to insert some blank pages)
Best,
-Dan
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:12 AM stallio [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <
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They are (probably) asking how to pad the page count of their final book before they send it to the printers, by adding blank pages at the end.
So this question is probably about asciidoctor-epub3 or asciidoctor-pdf.
Asciidoctor-pdf's publishing mode should get you part of the way there, but I don't know if there's a way to add blanks at the end: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf/blob/master/docs/theming-guide.adoc#publishing-mode
(Printing presses print on extra-large pieces of paper called "signatures." These are folded and trimmed, so that one signature becomes 4, 8, or 16 pages of the final book. Thus the final page count needs to be a multiple of the signature size.)
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