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I have a little problem with kprinter and pdf-files.

I have a pdf-file, page orientation is landscape. I want to print it into another pdf-file. In this second pdf-file, I want to have four pages of the original file on one page of the second file. This only works partially.

The first page of the original file is located in the upper right of the first page in the second file, the second page of the original file is located in the lower right. The third page of the original file is located in the upper left, and the fourth page of the original file is loacted in the lower left.

I want to have the first page of the original file located in the upper left, the second one in the lower left, the third in the upper right, the fourth in the lower left.

I attached two pictures, to show what I mean.
The first picture shows the situation as it is, the second picture shows what I would like to have.

Is there any possibility to achieve this? I am using KDE3.5.2.

Thank you in advance.

Well, I don't have any idea what I could do to fix this problem.
Perhaps you have any hint for me, where to start?

Thank you.

Using psnup on commandline works perfectly.
If I callI get exactly the result I want to have.

Callingresults in a "malformatted" file, as shown above.

So, I guess KPrinter does not specify the "-l" option to psnup. Has anyone an idea how to achieve this?

Well, I found this option before. But there are only three settings I may change.
-Pages per sheet
-Border line width
-Additional margin

Is there no configuration file in which I may specify the command to use?

But there is another detail which makes me wonder. This problem only exists with documents with page format landscape. I open a document in landscape format, choose to print it into a pdf file. I click the button "Properties" (next to the printer selection boc, I don't know if it's called Properties in English KDE). I set the option "4 pages per sheet". The setting for paper format (landscape or portrait) is greyed out. Then I choose OK. If I now open the properties dialogue again, the setting for paper format is no longer greyed out. Why is this? (Changing paper format doesn't deal with the problem, it seems as if it has no effect).

No, I can't do this. I attached a screenshot to show the options I may change.

Thank you!
I was talking about a different dialogue. Now I opened the correct dialogue, added the "-l" option and it now works for documents in landscape format. But it no longer works for documents in portrait format, so I'll try adding a second filter which is exactly the same, but without the "-l" option for psnup.

Thank you for your help and patience.