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This article is part of the HOWTOs series.

Introduction

First: you may not know what imposition is: Wikipedia will tell you.

A list of tools which are useful for imposition.

Two type of software are listed here:

software which can be obtained free of charge and can help you do some imposition tasks.
imposition software (free, free of charge or payware)

example for making a booklet:

$ java.exe -cp multivalent.jar" tool.pdf.Impose -dim 2x1 -layout 2,3,4,1
-paper "297x210 mm" -verbose file.pdf

PoDoFo Impose (free; imposition tool distributed with the PoDoFo library)
On-line imposition with PoDoFo (web based, work in progress; by Pierre Marchand; there is still an old server)
Adobe Reader 8 and 9 will do booklet printing for you. For a A4 booklet, you just needs to export an A5 document to PDF and then tell Adobe Reader to print it as a booklet.

pstops (see How to make impositions with pstops)
pdf-shuffler (introduction by bigbrovar) Not really an imposition program, but permits easy reshuffling and adding/deleting of pages.

PDFmergeX (donationware): not really an imposition tool... but it may have enough features for you
CombinePDFs (donationware)

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 * [http://podofo.sourceforge.net/ PoDoFo Impose] (free; imposition tool distributed with the PoDoFo library)
 * [http://www.creationlibre.net/test2/impose/ On-line imposition with PoDoFo]  (web based, work in progress; by Pierre Marchand; there is still an [http://www.oep-h.com/impose/ old server])
-* [http://www.adobe.com/de/products/reader/ Adobe Reader] 8 and 9 (latter is only available on windows) will do booklet printing for you.  For a A4 booklet, you just needs to export an A5 document to PDF and then tell Adobe Reader to print it as a booklet.
+* [http://www.adobe.com/de/products/reader/ Adobe Reader] 8 and 9 will do booklet printing for you.  For a A4 booklet, you just needs to export an A5 document to PDF and then tell Adobe Reader to print it as a booklet.
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