% booklet.tex  ... re-orders PDF pages and collets them for booklet printing 

% This macro is used as an example in the book
% Petr Olsak: Typograficky system TeX, pages 102, 103.

% Usage: change the first definition \def\document{your-document}
% without PDF extension and process: pdftex booklet.
% Then use duplex printing over the short side.

\ifx\document\undefined
   \def\document {navrh-rozpoctu} % Name of processed document without suffix
\fi
\nopagenumbers % we need no pagenumbers
\pdfpagewidth=297mm \pdfpageheight=210mm % sheet = format A4 landscape
\pdfhorigin=0pt \pdfvorigin=0pt          % Knuth's origin-point shifted
\def\pageswidth{width.5\pdfpagewidth}    % page width = 1/2 of sheet width 

\pdfximage \pageswidth {\document.pdf}   % First page is read in order to
\mathchardef\firstpage=\pdflastximage    % detect \pdflastximagepages

\def\putpage#1{% put the page number #1 into sheet
   \ifnum#1>\pdflastximagepages \hbox{\vrule\pageswidth}\else % empty page
      \ifnum#1=1 \pdfrefximage\firstpage                   % first page   
      \else \pdfximage \pageswidth page#1 {\document.pdf}% % normal page
            \pdfrefximage\pdflastximage
      \fi\fi}

\newcount\aL \newcount\aR \newcount\bL \newcount\bR
\aL=\pdflastximagepages
\advance\aL by3 \divide\aL by4 \multiply\aL by4  % rounding to 4N up 
\aR=1  \bL=2 \bR=\aL \advance\bR by-1            % little calculations
\loop
   \hbox{\putpage\aL \putpage\aR}\vfil\break     % faceside of the sheet
   \hbox{\putpage\bL \putpage\bR}\vfil\break     % underside of the sheet
   \advance\aR by2  \advance\aL by-2
   \advance\bR by-2 \advance\bL by2
   \ifnum \aL>\aR \repeat
\end