Leave even pages empty on answer sheet for double sided printing

Added by Martin Klima about 8 years ago

Hi,
I'm trying to print the tests with a separate answer sheets. The tests have many questions (~150) resulting in multiple answer sheets for a student.
What I want to do is to print the whole file as double-sided (duplex) but I do not want the answer sheet to be double sided.
Solution: I need every even page on the answer sheet empty.
Thanks for help!

Martin


Replies (8)

RE: Leave even pages empty on answer sheet for double sided printing - Added by shreikant kv about 8 years ago

Use: \AMCcleardoublepage
It is in the manual.

RE: Leave even pages empty on answer sheet for double sided printing - Added by Martin Klima about 8 years ago

I know this command, but it does something else. My situation is the following: The answer sheet reaches across 1.5 pages. What I need to print is first page, blank page, second page, blank page.
If I had more pages on the separate answer sheet it would have the same pattern.
The reason is as I mentioned before, that I want to print the whole file as double sided but the answers are easy to scan as single sided.
Thanks !
M.

RE: Leave even pages empty on answer sheet for double sided printing - Added by shreikant kv about 8 years ago

Why not do one-sided printing when you send answer sheet to printer?

RE: Leave even pages empty on answer sheet for double sided printing - Added by shreikant kv about 8 years ago

...or look at latex packages like everypage,everyshi,bobhook. But I have not
personally verified the possibility.

RE: Leave even pages empty on answer sheet for double sided printing - Added by Martin Klima about 8 years ago

Thanks, that should work. I'll look into it.

Best,
M.

RE: Leave even pages empty on answer sheet for double sided printing - Added by Alexis Bienvenüe about 8 years ago

The answer sheet reaches across 1.5 pages.

If you need only one blank page, you can start from something like https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36880/insert-a-blank-page-after-current-page#36881

RE: Leave even pages empty on answer sheet for double sided printing - Added by Martin Klima about 8 years ago

Unfortunately \afterpage does not work with multiple columns. This does not work. I need every even page blank, not only the first one.
Nothing seems to work :-(

RE: Leave even pages empty on answer sheet for double sided printing - Added by shreikant kv about 8 years ago

Pl try this:

\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{everyshi,blindtext,ifthen}
\EveryShipout{\ifthenelse{\isodd{\thepage}}{\  \clearpage}{}}
\begin{document}
\blindtext[30]
\end{document}

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