Folding Booklet Printing

[Mezzanine]

I'm sorry, but I just can't figure this out... maybe I know how to do it, and I'm just confusing myself...

All I'd like to do is make a booklet-styled, page-facing document with two facing pages on A4 paper (ie 2 A5 pages). My pages fold together, so is there any way to print them automatically corallated (ie pages #1+50, #49+2, #3+48, etc)?

If there's a tutorial for this (I've searched around) please let me know, somebody. Thanks!

 

[jmgalvin]

What you want to do is called Imposing. This is done with Imposition programs - there are quite a few and all commercial printers have them.

My version of Indesign (3 - included in Creative Suite Premium) included Inbooklet SE, a basic imposer. This was part of the "Pagemaker Edition" as Pagemaker had always included this plugin. With this it only take a second or two to put the pages in order for printing.

If you wan to print the thing on your own printer, you'll have to impose the thing. You can go to alap.com to look at Inbooklet. If you're sending the thing out to a print shop, don't worry. Just leave the document in its original fromat. The print shop will run it through an imposer to get the pages in proper printing order.

Using OSX 10.3.8 on a G4

 

[Lessa]

I have software called BookLightning that does what your asking with pdfs. It's costs $50. Would've been nice if ID had included that Inbooklet for everyone.

 

[MarcusStringer]

Or you could just drag you pages to where you want them using the "Pages" pallet.



Marcus

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