Print double sided and multiple pages on Ubuntu

"From UbuntuForums Printing Tips Multiple Pages per sheet

Create a dummy pdf-document that has two pages (of the original document) in every page.
for CUPS:

general tab: select the PDF printer from the main window / the reverse option should be - - UNchecked
page setup tab:
pages per side : 2
two sided : one sided
only print : all sheets
hit print

Maybe, this will help.
Making PDF documents in Ubuntu 9.04 with CUPS-PDF (and gutenprint)"

"I wanted to do that too , in a easy way so I wrote this little java prog.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class booklet {

public static int max=0;

public static int min=1;
public static int maxSP=max;
public static int minSP=min;

public static ArrayList<Integer> arr1 = new ArrayList<Integer>();
public static ArrayList<Integer> arr2 = new ArrayList<Integer>();

public static void bookletMaker(int totalfolhas){

for (int i = 0; i < (max/4); i++) {

System.out.print((max-1)+"", ""+min+"", "");
arr1.add(max-1);
arr1.add(min);
min++;
max--;
System.out.print((max+1)+"", ""+min+"", "");
arr1.add(max+1);
arr1.add(min);
min++;
max--;

System.out.print("" "");

System.out.print(min+"", ""+(max-1)+"", "");
arr2.add(min);
arr2.add(max-1);
min++;
max--;
System.out.print(min + "", "" + (max+1) + "","");

arr2.add(min);
arr2.add(max+1);
min++;
max--;

System.out.println();

}
System.out.println((max/4)+"" folhas"");

//retorna os valores max e min aos valores originais
max=maxSP;
min=minSP;

// Impressão em liha para copy+paste
System.out.println(""Impressão em linha para copy + paste"");

}

public static void main(String[] args ) {
Scanner inputNumber= new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println(""Digite o numero de páginas do documento: "");
max=inputNumber.nextInt();
System.out.println(""Páginas de frente Páginas de Verso"");
bookletMaker(max);

System.out.println();
System.out.println(""Paginas Frente"");
System.out.println(arr1);
System.out.println(""Paginas Verso"");
System.out.println(arr2);
}

}

it will show you the sequence of pages you should print to have a booklet at the end.
So copy and paste the sequence on he field ""Print only these pages"" in you print options. And there you go.

By the way, I wrote it to print booklets with 2 pages per page.
I hope it can help."