Number of Pages issues (--nup)

[drlouie]

I've never tried the "Number of Pages" feature for HTMLDoc, however I've been using HTMLDoc for over a decade and a half, and its been quite instrumental in a lot of my web-facing information system projects. Thank you, for creating and maintaining HTMLDoc, Mr. Michael Sweet.

The Issue

"--nup 4" sizes down my pages to a quarter width/height, however it still parses all pages individually, yet 1/4 the original size. I'm guessing I'm missing something with margins/padding etc. Any idea?

I'm using FreeBSD, Apache, PHP or Perl, command line.

"/usr/local/bin/htmldoc --format pdf14 --compression=9 --nup 4 --quiet --pagelayout document --header ... --footer ... --bottom 1px --left 36px --top 1px --webpage -f docs/catalog/VernonFinneyArt-product-catalog.pdf docs/catalog/182.html docs/catalog/185.html docs/catalog/184.html docs/catalog/186.html"

Something to note: When I mouse over on the document, when displayed in the proper browser, mine is Firefox/Win 10, I get a mouse-over effect for each page's content, however it is off center from the content itself. This is definitely connected to the problem I am experiencing in outputting multiple pages into one document. How to fix, though. Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Do note: If I figure this out, I will post the fix here.

VernonFinneyArt-product-catalog.pdf

[drlouie]

BTW: Here are some walk-through documents for installing and trying HTMLDoc on various operating systems, something I wrote for Vultr early last year:

https://www.vultr.com/docs/htmldoc-pdf-from-html-markup-unix-freebsd
https://www.vultr.com/docs/install-htmldoc-on-centos-7
https://www.vultr.com/docs/install-htmldoc-on-debian-9
https://www.vultr.com/docs/install-htmldoc-on-ubuntu-18-04

[michaelrsweet]

@drlouie I think the issue is that each file starts the number-up layout on a fresh page.

[drlouie]

@michaelrsweet

Thank you, for everything! So, I went ahead and left it as one page per product, just changed the order to reflect the order in which the printer will be printing out the PDF document in creating a catalog booklet. HTMLDoc is stamped on all pages too, for you definitely deserve credit, Mr. Sweet.

https://vernonfinneyart.com/docs/catalog/VernonFinneyArt-product-catalog_BOOK.pdf

[michaelrsweet]

@drlouie Your catalog looks great! And thank you for the mention in the footer! :)