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Pages per sheet

Handouts and drafts: several pages nested on each sheet, in reading order.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to pages per sheet

  1. Drop the PDF.
  2. Pick how many pages a sheet holds, and the paper.
  3. Press Nest and download.

What happens to your file

Ghostscript lays the pages onto sheets in reading order — left to right, then down — each page scaled to its cell with its proportions kept. Two to a sheet turns the sheet landscape so the pages stay large; the grids stay portrait. Nothing is cropped; text stays text.

A twelve-page document at four per sheet is three sheets. The last sheet is part-empty when the count does not divide.

Questions

Can I add a margin or a border between pages?

Not yet — the pages sit edge to edge in their cells with a small gutter Ghostscript leaves.

For a folded booklet?

That needs the pages in a special order — Booklet PDF does it.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "pdf.nup",
    "options": {
      "per_sheet": 2,
      "paper": "a4"
    }
  }'

The same operation, pdf.nup — Two, four, six or nine pages to a sheet (Ghostscript), A4 or Letter, landscape when the grid is wider than tall. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.