Duplicate and position SVGs on A4 PDF

Question

The problem I try to solve is the automated duplication and positioning of one svg (140 x 70 mm) six times to get a printer friendly A4 PDF page.

I want to create a multi-page invitation (140 x 70 mm). On one A4 sheet (different color A4 sheets) I want to position 6 cutouts. One invitation constists out of 4 sheets, each duplex printed. This leads to 8 pages to put information. So I will gain 6 inviations from 4x A4. It will look similar to this one.

So an A4 sheet will look like this.

 ________210mm_________
|              |       |
|      A       |       |
|______________|   C   |
|              |       |
2      B       |       |
9______________|_______|
7______________________|
m              |       |
m      D       |       |
|______________|   F   |
|              |       |
|      E       |       |
|______________|_______|

I prepared a page (140 x 70 mm) and the corresponding back side using inkscape. I could duplicate manually with inkscape for each page. But it's repeating work and if I want to change a page I have to propagate it all the time to A, B, C, ...

Do you have any idea how I can solve this problem maybe with python? I already found some svglib's. But I just found a simple svg -> pdf conversion.

Answer 1

You might like to investigate Inkscapes "Clone" feature.

http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Clones.html

It may do what you want.

One obvious question that springs to mind though. If your invitation is 160x70, how are you going to fit C on the page? 160+70 > 210.