A curious format conversion

[MPete]

I wonder if there's a way to use these files... I have a small charity magazine that's been running maybe 20+ years now and I'm thinking maybe of publishing them as MegaZines...

The problem is earlier editions are printed (they an be scanned) but newer issues are pdf - they are paginated in typical magazine print/collate order and show 2 A5 pages side by side.

An example of the pages:
8 pages:
1: Page 16/Cover
2: Page 2/15
3: Page 14/3
4: Page 4/13
5: Page 12/5
6: Page 6/11
7: Page 10/7
8: Page 8/9

It seems complicated but when printed back to back it collates and folds as a readable book.

What are some suggestions to split the pages in half, or mask half the page or incorporate somehow into MegaZine?

This is for all you lateral thinkers

[Florian Nücke]

Hrm. I admit I'm not too well versed in regards of Photoshop macros, but I'm pretty sure there's some way to use variables. Then you could enter the total number of pages and save the left half as n (with n as a counter), the right one as total - 1 - n... well, the first page kinda falls off the grid...

Can't think of anything better at the moment. Then again, it might be faster to just do it by hand than thinking / programming a complex macro to do it for you.

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Or you could try Amazon's Mechanical Turk!