Saving scrbook as 2up PDF

Question

I have a document of the scrbook documentclass, so it distinguishes between even and odd pages. I want to save it as a handout (PDF) with two pages per a4 side, placing the even side to the left and the odd side to the right (so it looks like an opened book). Is there any good option for making this happen?

campa · Accepted Answer

Assuming that your book is something like
% mybook.tex
documentclass{scrbook}

usepackage{kantlipsum}
title{My Great Masterpiece}
author{Me Myself}

begin{document}
maketitle
chapter{Foo}
kant[1-10]
end{document}

you can simply use pdfpages as
documentclass[a4paper,landscape]{article}
usepackage{pdfpages}
pagestyle{empty}
begin{document}
includepdf[pages={1}]{mybook}
clearpagenull
includepdf[pages={{},3-},nup=2x1]{mybook}
end{document}

The important point is the option
pages={{},3-},nup=2x

which means 1) insert an empty page (the {}) and then 2) all pages from the third on.

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