Today I recommend a free open source program, bookbinder, with it, you can easily create a bindable book from a PDF document.

Bookbinder is a program that will convert a PDF document into signatures suitable for traditional bookbinding.
While there are a lot of programs on the net that will create a single booklet from a small document, I couldn’t find one that would turn a 500 page novel or textbook into several signatures. So I had to write one.

The chosen PDF is split into chunks, the page order of each chunk is rearranged, then the pages are placed two to a page in a new PDF. After printing and folding, each bundle of sheets should be a correctly ordered signature, ready for binding.

Something like this…

The program does steps 1 and 2. You have to do the rest to create a finished book.

The gui screenshot is like this,

and it support 3 formats, booklet, perfect bound, signatures.

If you like it, please visit here for details and download it.

Before Install

• Make sure you have installed Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.x, 8.x or 9.x, not Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat Standard.
• Make sure you have installed Microsoft .NET Framework Version 1.1 goldistributable Package

Download and Intall

• download Batch ReaderEnable(email me, and I will give you download address)
• unzip(you can use winzip, winrar or 7-zip) it to any folder you like

Run it

• run readerenable.exe
• click “Open” button to select the folder has PDF files to convert
• click “Save” button to select the folder that save the converted PDF files(pay attention, the folder must be writable).
• the process will start, during the conversion, please do not click the mouse or any key of the keyboard.

How to Register

• Buy it(only $39 per license).
• please click “register” button, it will pop up a new windows, get the machine code and mail to me.
• After I got the machine code, I will send you reg code ASAP.

From OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Features I noticed some great features about PDF,
*PDF/A Support

In addition to the ISO standard OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice.org also supports the the popular ISO standard PDF/A. While ODF is used for editable documents, PDF/A is popular for archiving read-only versions of documents.

*Enhanced PDF Export

The PDF export feature in OpenOffice.org provides a huge set of formatting and security options; so that PDF files can be customized for many different scenarios.

*PDF Import Extension

The PDF Import Extension allows modifying existing PDF files for which the original source files do not exist anymore. PDF documents are imported in Draw and Impress to preserve the layout and to allow basic editing. It is the perfect solution for changing dates, numbers or small portions of text. Native PDF forms are not yet imported.
The next development step will focuses more on the edit capabilities and less on layout by using the Writer.
The PDF Import extension will also enable the PDF export into a hybrid PDF file, which is a PDF with the embedded source file as ODF. Hybrid PDF files will be opened in StarOffice as an ODF file without any layout differences, while users without StarOffice can open the PDF part of the hybrid file.
This is just a beta version and it requires the OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta 2 to work. Please help us to optimize this Extension, any feedback is important for us. Find details about the preferred channel in thisGullFOSS article

and you can download PDF Import extension from here