Page Numbering in a 10 pg. Newsletter?

[aries2]

Hello!
I am designing a 10 pg. newsletter.I am confused about how to set up the file. I set up a master page with facing pages (becuase the newsletter will be printed on 11x17 paper and then folded in half and stapled in the middle).I used the auto page numbering feature but dosen't that mean that the pages would be printed 1&2,3&4...not 1&10, 9&2...etc like it would have to be to be folded in half and have the page numbers right? I could do single pages but how would I set up a spread across 2 pages?
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should set this up? Should I use the facing pages in the document layout or should I do single pages? Thanks for your help!
CC

PS: can anyone recomend a book about how to set things like up?

 

[jimoblak]

You should read up on "printer's spreads" versus "reader's spreads" and "page imposition". This may be a close as google.com

If you are providing this to a professional printer, you can ignore worrying about page order. Just set it up as pages 1-12. You cannot bind a 10 page document. Everything must be in multiples of 4 since you have 4 pages in one tabloid sheet.



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[GeorgeMack]

Check with your printer before getting too far into the project. Most printers have software or well-established procedures to output in spreads to their liking, which could include adding extra center margins for outside pages, to allow for the added thickness of paper folded around the inner sheets. And your clients/reviewers definitely appreciate being able to follow the stories sequentially (hence the name "reader's spreads".)

I recommend that if you ARE setting up the pages in printer spreads, for whatever reason, you turn off the automatic numbers and number them manually. Or you could possibly make each page a section start, starting on the number you want, but that seems unnecessarily complicated (though it's a little easier to follow in Quark's layout pallet).

I sometimes set up the last page as a section start (page 12 in the example floated on this thread), then continue with reader spreads from there onwards, finishing on page 11. That way I get to see the wraparound more like what the readers would see.

Hope this is helpful

G

 

[MarcusStringer]

I think Jimoblak is right,
If you set up the pages going from page 1-12 then you will give the pre-press people room to move. and this allows you to take it elsewhere if need be without to much fuss.
If you set it up going from 1-12, 2-11 etc then when the pre-press people get hold of it, they will hate you, because their imposition equipment will be setup for pages running in order.
if it isn't then they will have to do more work re-aranging the pages so they are in the correct order...and will cost you more for their time

Last thing: Ask the people doing the printing, they will give you a more precise answer

Marcus

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