Dune

I was looking to print a nice PnP (Print and Play) game and I came across Dune.

The game is nicely redone, from it's original 1979 publishing, so thick with theme from the book, that really made me wanna read the book again. First time I read it was while a was a freshman in university (back in '89).

And in case you didn't know, this book is often quoted as THE best science fiction novel with more than 12 million copies sold worldwide.

The wikipedia article is very informative, too.

Convert an A4 sized .pdf file to A5 size

I was working on a LyX document based on the Tufte layout and unfortunately the page layout was available at A4 page sizes only (ok, US letter, too, but that doesn't count :)

I could try and learn Latex and create my own page size but the task looked monumental. I am sure the solution might be easy enough, but I just couldn't do it myself. Googling for A5 sized tufte layouts didn't help either.

So to the command line it is.