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Amy Worrall<\/a> (Mastodon<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Octavo arranges your pages for perfect printing — booklets, mini zines, business cards, and more. It also cleans up messy PDFs: fix mismatched page sizes, straighten skewed scans, and position each page precisely.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Create saddle-stitched booklets with automatic page ordering. Just load your PDF and Octavo handles the imposition maths.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There’s a free Lite version<\/a> and a $24.99 one-time unlock in the Mac App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2026-03-19<\/a>): Amy Worrall<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Octavo was rejected because they couldn’t find the in-app purchase. Which was a big orange button. I added a review screenshot with an arrow pointing to it and it was then accepted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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