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How to start with a page spread rather than single page?
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I suspect that you are asking because you want to do you own imposing. InDesign does not do this natively without a script or plugin. A good one is 'InBooklet' from alap.com
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>Set page 1 as blank in the pages palette and begin page numbering on page 2
I'm terribly sorry, but could you let me know how to do that?
Also, this will be a database driven project, so if you know where I could learn the script to do this, I'll pass it on to our developer.
I'm terribly sorry, but could you let me know how to do that?
Also, this will be a database driven project, so if you know where I could learn the script to do this, I'll pass it on to our developer.
Think he means to leave page 1 blank and start your work on p2 - to see the facing pages. If this is a booklet you will have problems, because the cover would be blank. Final appearance is set at the print output end or by imposing software.
To start numbering on p2 go to Layout menu/Numbering & section options or Pages window/Numbering and section options
To start numbering on p2 go to Layout menu/Numbering & section options or Pages window/Numbering and section options
jmgalvin:
"If this is a booklet you will have problems,"
I'm not following why this would be a problem. If the document is two sided, Minarai would have to design it so that the cover content would print on page 3, the back cover on page 2, so that, when folded, those faces would be out.
If the document is single sided, I still can't see what sort of problems would develop.
For me, the only tricky part to booklets is pre-planning the design so it prints correctly for the printer I'm using (I don't send my stuff out). I've never studied or been instructed on proper design of a booklet for outside printing. Can someone comment on what would be standard?
. . . and, jmgalvin, if I'm being dense here (a good probability), please enlighten me.
Thanks.
Carusoswi
"If this is a booklet you will have problems,"
I'm not following why this would be a problem. If the document is two sided, Minarai would have to design it so that the cover content would print on page 3, the back cover on page 2, so that, when folded, those faces would be out.
If the document is single sided, I still can't see what sort of problems would develop.
For me, the only tricky part to booklets is pre-planning the design so it prints correctly for the printer I'm using (I don't send my stuff out). I've never studied or been instructed on proper design of a booklet for outside printing. Can someone comment on what would be standard?
. . . and, jmgalvin, if I'm being dense here (a good probability), please enlighten me.
Thanks.
Carusoswi
MarcusStringer
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Grab a sheet of paper and fold it in half.
while holding the folded sheet write the numbers 1 on the front page, 2 on the next side etc until 4.
1
2 3
4
So now pages 2 3 are on the inside fold of the paper.
So...if you start on page 2 then there will be a blank on page 1 which is what
jmgalvin was talking about.
the only way around this is to set the file up as single pages and not as spreads, that way you can add a section start on the first page and call it 2.
Or simply tell you Printer to delete the first page out of the Imposition.
Or put the Front Cover on the Blank page 1 and the Back Cover on the Last even page
Marcus
while holding the folded sheet write the numbers 1 on the front page, 2 on the next side etc until 4.
1
2 3
4
So now pages 2 3 are on the inside fold of the paper.
So...if you start on page 2 then there will be a blank on page 1 which is what
jmgalvin was talking about.
the only way around this is to set the file up as single pages and not as spreads, that way you can add a section start on the first page and call it 2.
Or simply tell you Printer to delete the first page out of the Imposition.
Or put the Front Cover on the Blank page 1 and the Back Cover on the Last even page
Marcus
Marcus:
I understand what you pointed out. Told you I can be a bit dense in this area. In my mind, I was folding the sheet containing pages 2-3 the opposite way, so that 3 became the cover, and 2 winds up on the outside back.
Either way, if one sets up the doc (by "folding the paper" as you point out), skipping page 1 should still not be a problem.
Of course, inherent in folding the paper, is the elimination of one of the two faces. Even in my convoluted backwards folding, the minute the paper is "folded", my page 2 becomes, in effect, page 1, and page 3 becomes what you accurately describe as the last even page.
I'd be curious to know what sort of document minarai is creating, and, I guess the really big "if" is jmgalvin's "if this is a booklet." The more I think about it, the more apparent it is that a booklet by definition starts on a single, "odd-numbered" page.
Interesting thread (to me, at least).
Carusoswi
I understand what you pointed out. Told you I can be a bit dense in this area. In my mind, I was folding the sheet containing pages 2-3 the opposite way, so that 3 became the cover, and 2 winds up on the outside back.
Either way, if one sets up the doc (by "folding the paper" as you point out), skipping page 1 should still not be a problem.
Of course, inherent in folding the paper, is the elimination of one of the two faces. Even in my convoluted backwards folding, the minute the paper is "folded", my page 2 becomes, in effect, page 1, and page 3 becomes what you accurately describe as the last even page.
I'd be curious to know what sort of document minarai is creating, and, I guess the really big "if" is jmgalvin's "if this is a booklet." The more I think about it, the more apparent it is that a booklet by definition starts on a single, "odd-numbered" page.
Interesting thread (to me, at least).
Carusoswi
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