N-up PDF – Multiple Pages per Sheet

N-up printing puts several pages on one sheet of paper — handy for lecture slides, proofs, handouts and long documents you only need to skim. Instead of relying on each printer driver's own settings, this tool creates a new PDF where every sheet already holds 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 or 16 pages, so it prints the same way everywhere. The pages are placed as vector graphics, so text stays sharp at any zoom.

How to use this tool

1. Drop the PDF (or several PDFs; each becomes its own N-up file).
2. Choose how many pages go on a sheet and the sheet size.
3. Leave the orientation on Automatic to get the biggest pages, or force portrait or landscape.
4. Set the reading order, margins and gaps, optionally add borders, then download.

Formula

Scale = min(cell width ÷ page width, cell height ÷ page height), where cell = (sheet − 2 × margin − gaps) ÷ columns or rows

For each possible grid (for example 2 × 1 or 1 × 2 for 2-up) and both orientations, the tool computes this scale for the first page and keeps the layout with the largest one. Every page is then scaled to fit its own cell and centred, and pages that are rotated in the original are drawn upright.

Example

Twelve A4 landscape slides (841.89 × 595.28 pt) at 6-up on A4 with 5 mm margins and 3 mm gaps: a portrait sheet with 2 columns × 3 rows gives cells of 279.2 × 265.5 pt and a scale of 279.2 ÷ 841.89 = 33.2%, better than 3 × 2 on a landscape sheet (31.5%). The result is 2 sheets of six slides each.