How it works
- 01Open the PDF.
- 02Choose how many pages go on each sheet.
- 03Set the spacing, and an outline if the pages need separating visually.
- 04Export.
Scaled to fit, never cropped
Each page is scaled down until it fits inside its cell and centred there. It is never enlarged to fill the cell, because a handout with the edges cut off every slide is worse than one with a little whitespace.
Everything else comes with it
The layout is applied last, to the finished pages — so rotation, cropping, watermarks and page numbers are all composed onto the sheet exactly as they appear on the individual pages. There is no second set of rules for what a page looks like once it is on a handout.
The last sheet is not dropped
Seven pages at four per sheet gives two sheets: one full and one with three on it. That sounds obvious and is exactly the arithmetic that tools get wrong, so it has a test of its own.
The sheet keeps the original page size
A Letter document produces Letter handouts and an A4 document produces A4 ones. Nothing silently changes paper size on you.
Questions
- Why does the preview still show one page at a time?
- The composition happens when you export. The panel tells you how many sheets you will get and how much you are saving, but the pages above are still shown individually — claiming otherwise would be a preview that does not match the result.
- Can I choose the order pages fill the grid?
- Not yet — they fill left to right, top to bottom, which is what a handout wants. Booklet imposition, where the order is deliberately scrambled for folding, is a different feature.
- Does it work with mixed page sizes?
- Yes. Each page is scaled to fit its own cell, so a document with a mix of portrait and landscape pages still composes sensibly. The sheet size follows the first page.