N-up PDF
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About N-up PDF
This tool puts 2, 4 or 8 pages of a PDF on each sheet of A4 or US Letter and saves a new PDF. Pages are scaled as vector content rather than turned into images, so text stays sharp when you zoom in and remains searchable.
The grid is chosen from the pages per sheet, the paper orientation and the shape of the first page so that pages come out as large as possible. The default is two columns (2-up 2 × 1, 4-up 2 × 2, 8-up 2 × 4), and another grid is used only when it shows pages more than 10% larger; portrait A4 pages at 8-up on landscape paper, for example, go 4 × 2. Cells fill left to right, top to bottom, and each page is scaled as large as it can go inside its cell without distortion and centred there. You can set a gap between cells (mm) and a frame around each page; by default there’s no gap and no frame. The outer margin defaults to 0 mm; set one if you need it.
The grid follows the page shape
The scale is set by whichever side of the cell is tighter, so the tool works it out for every possible grid (for 8-up: 2 × 4, 4 × 2, 1 × 8 and 8 × 1) and takes the one that shows the page largest. Wide 16:9 slides come out bigger stacked in one column; portrait documents on landscape paper come out bigger with more columns.
On portrait A4 with a 10 mm margin, 16:9 slides go 1 × 2 at 2-up (slides 190 mm wide), 1 × 4 at 4-up (about 123 mm) and 2 × 4 at 8-up (95 mm). Portrait A4 documents at 8-up on landscape A4 used to sit 2 × 4 at about 34 mm wide; laid out 4 × 2 they are about 67 mm wide, so the text is twice the size.
Don’t N-up it twice
The output is already laid out, so print it at one page per sheet. Turning on the printer’s own pages-per-sheet option as well turns 4-up into 16-up. For something you’ll fold and read like a booklet, use the PDF booklet tool, which reorders pages for folding.
Worked examples
Handouts for a 40-slide 16:9 deck
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40 slides at 960 × 540 pt, A4, 10 mm margin- Output
Portrait 8-up (2 × 4): 5 sheets, slides about 95 mm wide / Landscape 4-up (2 × 2): 10 sheets, slides about 139 mm wide
At portrait 8-up the cells are (210 − 20) ÷ 2 = 95 mm wide, so slides are 95 mm wide and 18 pt text on a slide prints at about 5 pt. At landscape 4-up the cells are (297 − 20) ÷ 2 = 138.5 mm, so 18 pt becomes about 7.4 pt. Portrait 4-up is stacked 1 × 4 instead, giving the same 10 sheets with slides about 123 mm wide (18 pt → about 6.5 pt). Landscape 4-up reads better; portrait 8-up uses half the paper.
How to use it
- Open the PDF and enter a page range if needed.
- Choose pages per sheet (2, 4 or 8), A4 or Letter, orientation, outer margin and, if you like, cell spacing and frames. The buttons show the grid that will be used (for example 4 × 2).
- Check the text size in the result and save the PDF.
Frequently asked questions
What happens to empty cells on the last sheet?
They stay blank. Ten pages at 4-up make three sheets, with the last two cells of the third one empty.
Can I add borders between pages?
Yes. Cell spacing (mm) puts a gap between pages, and turning on the border option draws a thin (0.5 pt) black frame around each page. By default there’s no gap and no frame, so pages without their own margins can appear to touch.
Do links in the original still work?
Links and annotations are moved to the page’s new, scaled position, and links that jump to another page in the document are re-aimed at the sheet where that page ended up.
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