Print two PDF pages on one sheet

The job

Slides to review on paper, a long document that does not need full-size pages, or a handout where two pages per sheet reads fine. Most print dialogs can do this, but the setting is buried — and a laid-out PDF prints correctly on any printer with no driver tricks.

How to do it

Drop the PDF in, pick 2-up (two pages side by side on a landscape sheet) or 4-up (a 2 × 2 grid on a portrait sheet), choose A4 or Letter, and create the file. Each source page is scaled to fit its cell and centred.

• Up to 25 MiB, 150 source pages, and 75 output sheets.
• 2-up turns the sheet landscape; 4-up keeps it portrait.

Worked example

A 24-page slide deck at 2-up becomes 12 landscape A4 sheets; at 4-up it becomes 6 portrait sheets. Page order runs left to right, then top to bottom on 4-up.

Limits

Pages are scaled but never rotated — a portrait source inside a landscape cell letterboxes with margins. Small text shrinks: 4-up suits slides and large type better than dense reports. Encrypted, signed, and form PDFs are not supported.