Hello.

I'm trying to print a multipage document in 'signatures'. Basically, does anyone use a DTP forum or otherwise know of a good resource that will show me how to do this?

What i want to do is.....

Take a multipage A4 PDF document.
Import that into my DTP program (Adobe InDesign) into seperate pages.

Now the tricky part.....

I want to print this A4 document onto A4 paper into signatures that i can fold and glue/bind together. So, the actual page would be A5.
Each A4 page would have 4 pages of the original document printed on it, both sides. But be organised correctly so when built into signatures and folded, it is in order.

Anyone? Bueller...? Bueller?

Got it!

Ok, finally put my head on the grindstone and sifted this out! So for anyone that needs to know..

The proper term is Imposition, but what i want to do here is a very basic form of it - so really it's called Booklet Printing.

Adobe Reader v8.0 handles this in the print dialogue box under Page Scaling.

So now you know!

Key

Okay, glad you sorted it. And this allows you to do what, because I'm intersted just academically, in DTP and haven't a clue what your post meant. In common sense terms, this allows you to do what???



Also, I want to know what you got planned here, seems almost oriental in its deviousness. Are you going to flood mainland Euroupe (oh fuck it, how ever you spell Europe, fucking got it that time, bastard bastard ...anyhoo) with pieces of papre preshape for the kids to make into water bombs and do the adults over, sorta Blue Peter goes mental appraoch ....

Yeah i understand what you wanna do.

so for 2 pieces of A4 you create an 8 page A5 booklet - first piece of A4 will be numbered pages 1,2,7,8 and second piece numbered 3,4,5,6,

I use Corel Draw for this, as it allows you to set the imposition and booklet , ut when working on the thing it presents each page as a full page in numerical order. The imposition and booklet is made automatically when sent to print.


YEE hA - i knew it would come in useful.

Any further DTP problems pm me.


PiXiE

yea cool.

OK Hir - as Pixied said, it's to create a booklet.

If you fold two sheets of A4 in half, across the shortest dimension, then another A4 page folded and put them together (one inside the other) to form a booklet - the pages aren't printed in order. The first, outside page, would have the front cover and back cover on one side and then Page 2 and Page 7 on the other.

The inner folded page would then have pages 3 and 6 on one side and 4 and 5 on the other (middle) side.

So when you print out, fold and collate the pages together off the printer, then staple them, they'll be in order!

Ye har.

I used to have a cool Amiga program (Booklet Creator, or somesuch) that took docs that you fed it, and it would miniaturize the text for you, and collate all the pages in the right order so's you could make little booklets like you're describing.

It was really cool for printing out mainly (pre-net) text docs from Public Domain text files, as cool little pocket-sized books that you could read anywhere/anytime. Ahh, memories.

I've spent half of today messing around with the features in Adobe Reader and it's pretty cohesive to be honest. Plus it's multiplatform and free, which is nice.

Key

Yeah, I must say that Adobe to tend to do good, in-depth apps with a lot of good functionality in them. Their PDF reader has become a bit of a bloated monstrosity, though, just for the simple purpose of reading PDFs - I think that Foxit is superior in this regard.

You're right about it being bloated!

There are a lot of other, better (i would say) apps for viewing. But not many have booklet printing available in them.