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This coming week is FOSDEM! If you're like me and find schedule planning easier with paper and highlighters, this might be useful.

FOSDEM provide a (30 page) schedule PDF for printing, but the printing order doesn't clearly show which tracks are in parallel.

By re-ordering the pages, inserting some blanks, scaling the pages down 50% and arranging 2 on each physical page, I ended up with this monstrosity:

It looks like Sunday might need more tweaking…

So I remember how I did it for next time:

pdfjam --twoside -o fosdem_2020_a4_reordered.pdf --nup 1x2 a4.pdf \
1,6,2,7,3,8,4,9,5,10,11,{},12,{},13,{},14,{},15,{},16,21,17,22,18,23,19,24,20,25,26,{},27,{},28,{},29,{},30 

edit, Sunday morning: I've just made a tweak to the end of the Sunday side to improve legibility.

And here it is. Enjoy!

Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote a very good blog post on how to survive FOSDEM.