Adding new-sheet command on PDF merge (for dual-sided printers)

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I’ll say up front that I think that there is very little chance this requests is possible, but I’m going to ask anyway…

We generate single PDF documents by merging individual PDFs… where those individual documents can be a completely random number of pages.

Is it possible to set a command between the individual PDFs, so that when printing the merged PDF on a dual sided printer the first page of each individual PDF starts on a new sheet of paper?

For instance, if I merged 2 PDFs together, and each of the PDFs had 3 pages, a dual-sided printer would print 2 sheets (with 3 sides covered) but then the 4 side of that sheet would be blank. Then the next document would effectively start on the 5th page, etc. You would end up with 4 pieces of paper being produced, rather than 3.

It’s worth noting that the exact same merged PDF document would need to also work on a single-sided printer without blank pages being printed. (Otherwise I would simply work out the size of the page as part of the merge and throw in a blank page if there were an odd number of pages.)

I apologise if this is confusing to understand, and as I say I think it’s highly, highly unlikely to be possible.

Many thanks,
Tom

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@stonefish

We will surely try to investigate the feasibility of this feature and if it is possible to implement or achieve using a workaround, we will share with you. Meanwhile, can you please share some sample source PDFs, output PDF and a copy of soft-printed PDF output (using Microsoft Print to PDF virtual printer) for our reference so that we can perform investigation accordingly?

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Apologies - this slipped off the radar and has now become a very low priority. I’ll try and come up with some examples should the functionality request rise back up the list

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@stonefish

You can please take your time for gathering the information and files that we requested. We will log an investigation ticket in our issue tracking system and share the ID with you.