Pages per Sheet
Runs in your browserPut several PDF pages onto one sheet, in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Choose how many pages per sheet and the document is rebuilt as a grid, which is what you want for handouts and for saving paper.
or drop them here, or paste
One file. It stays on your device.
This is called n-up, and it is the same thing a print dialog offers under pages per sheet. The difference is that this produces a document, so the layout is fixed and travels with the file rather than depending on whoever prints it choosing the right setting.
Everything happens inside this page. Your file is read by JavaScript running on your own machine, and no part of it is sent anywhere.
Why do it in the file rather than the print dialog
Because you are usually sending it to somebody else. A print dialog setting is yours and lasts for one job. A document laid out two-up prints two-up for everyone who opens it, including the colleague who prints it on a different machine three weeks later.
It is also the honest way to hand round a slide deck: forty slides at four to a page is ten sheets, and nobody has to think about it.
Which arrangement to pick
Two-up turns the sheet landscape and puts two portrait pages side by side. This is the readable one. A twelve point document at two-up is still comfortable and it halves the paper.
Four-up keeps the sheet portrait in a two by two grid. Body text gets small but headings and diagrams stay clear, which makes it right for slides and for reference material you will scan rather than read.
Six, nine and sixteen are for contact sheets rather than reading. Use them to see the shape of a long document at a glance, or to check the order of something before printing it properly.
Gap and borders
The gap is the space between the cells and around the edge, in points. Some gap is necessary because most printers cannot print to the very edge of the paper, and a page pushed hard against the margin gets clipped.
The thin border is off by default and worth turning on at four-up and above, where without it the eye struggles to tell where one page ends and the next begins.
What happens to the last sheet
If the page count does not divide evenly, the last sheet is partly empty rather than being padded or stretched. Nine pages at four-up gives three sheets, the last carrying a single page in the top left.
Text stays selectable throughout. Pages are placed as pages rather than redrawn as pictures, so a search still finds words in a four-up handout.
How to pages per sheet
- 01
Add your PDF
Select or drop the file.
- 02
Choose the grid
Pick how many pages go on each sheet.
- 03
Lay out
Press Lay out pages and download the new document.
Questions about Pages per Sheet
How do I print multiple PDF pages on one sheet?
Add the file, choose how many pages per sheet, and press Lay out pages. You get a new PDF already arranged that way, so it prints correctly for anyone you send it to.
How many pages per sheet is still readable?
Two-up is comfortable for ordinary text. Four-up works for slides and for reference material. Six and above are for seeing the shape of a document rather than reading it.
Is the text still selectable afterwards?
Yes. Pages are placed as pages, not redrawn as images, so text stays selectable and searchable.
What happens if the pages do not divide evenly?
The last sheet is partly empty. Nothing is stretched or padded to fill it.