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Using booklet or 2up package to print "zine" on duplex

TeX - LaTeX Asked on April 7, 2021

I’m trying to make a simple booklet that is to be printed on legal paper in a home printer, folded in half, and stapled together in the center. This style is sometimes called a "zine".

I have previously used the leaflet class to easily, painlessly, single-pass-compiledly make nice trifold leaflets. The pages come out in the correct order, and the output is formatted for duplex printing (i.e. turns on long axis), which puts the "back" page upside down.

I’m trying to do similar in LaTeX, but with a bifolded booklet, between 4 and 20 pages.

I know there are other workarounds for this, involving writing multiple separate files and python codes and running things through other things and then use pdfpages then recompiling. I would instead rather just click the "compile" button in TeXShop, possibly twice, and have it make a booklet.

I’ve tried several options, such as booklet, 2up, and tcolorbox with the raster and magazine options, but so far to no avail. I can find almost no working examples of either booklet or 2up actually working the way I want them to. The examples I do find are in the documentation for the classes, and don’t give desired output. tcolorbox doesn’t seem to have an option to format the output for duplex printing. The booklet documentation gives a line of example code that is supposed to render things for duplex printing, but it doesn’t work. The Booklet option of 2up I think is supposed to do what I want, but targetlayout{Booklet} produces an "Undefined control sequence" error.

I’ve tried countless searches and help threads and looking through lots of documentation, and I can’t find anything for efficiently generating booklets. I’m actually surprised this is so complicated to do in a language as programmatic as LaTeX, and I’m sure there must be a better solution out there.

Is there not just a class, similar to leaflet that does this? Or is there somewhere with better documentation or examples of the other packages?

Thanks for any help.

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