The Sabbath School quarterlies translated into French are usually released in both `.indd` (Adobe InDesign) format and `.pdf` (Portable Document Format). (Communicate with the Director of Evangelism or Director of Sabbath School at the Union to get these documents.) The layout and design of these documents assume you're working with large format presses. The paper size used does not correspond well to standard A4 or A3 paper used in smaller printers. This HOWTO shows a workaround for preparing the documents for printing on A4 or A3 paper.

Download the following to the archives folder:

• The `.pdf` document for the inside pages of Adult Standard Edition
• The `.pdf` document for the inside pages of Adult Teacher Edition
• The `.pdf` document for the cover of either edition (it can be easily modified for the other edition)
• The fonts directory — having all the original fonts is necessary to preserve formatting.

This process creates many files. If they're not organized, it will be confusing for anyone accessing them later. Create one master folder per year, and sub-folders for each document printed that year. Within each sub-folder, create three folders: `archives`, `current`, and `ready-to-print`.

Place unused or outdated files in the `archives` folder. Put current source files in the `current` folder. The `ready-to-print` folder should normally contain only two pdf files: the cover and the final inside pages.

Here is an example folder structure:

• EDS-2024
• EDS-2025
  • EDS-2025-TR1-etudiant
  • EDS-2025-TR1-moniteur
    • archives
    • current
    • pret-a-imprimer
      • EDS-2025-TR1-moniteur_A3.pdf
      • EDS-2025-TR1-moniteur-cover_A4.pdf
  • EDS-2025-TR2-etudiant
  • EDS-2025-TR2-moniteur

For more information, see the page Folder and File Organization.

Use pdfShuffler to merge the main EDS pdf with any of the following A5 pages as necessary so that the credit page is the last page:

• Publicity pages
• Blank page at the end
• DTM credit page (normally the last page)

Use jpdftweak Software to arrange the pages of the merged pdf (from step 2) onto A3 format.

For EDS Etudiant: Create signatures for the two-color printer using jpdftweak Template T01.

For EDS Moniteur: Create a document for the laser printer using jpdftweak Template T02.

Name the resulting file following this pattern: EDS-2025-TR1-etudiant_A3.pdf

Verify that the tags pdf file and your exported A3 file are in the archives folder.

If you need the tags pdf, download one or the other of these by Right-click –> “Save as”

• eds-tags-blue.pdf
• eds-tags-magenta.pdf

The original svg file can be found on the server in this folder:

IDTM0001-Produits/X-EDS-Quarterlies/tabs

Open a terminal. Change to the archives directory with the following command (be sure to replace the letters in CAPS with the actual path:

cd PATH/TO/EDS/DIRECTORY/archives

You can type the following command to list the contents of the directory, just to verify that you are in the right place:

ls

Run the following command in the terminal, but modify these things first, being very careful to follow the spacing and format exactly:

• SOURCE-FILE with the name of the source pdf
• TAGS with the tags pdf
• DESTINATION-FILE with the name you want for the output pdf (usually the source file with “tagged” at the end

qpdf SOURCE-FILE.pdf --overlay TAGS.pdf -- DESTINATION-FILE-tagged.pdf