Reply To: Booklet making software for Mac please

Anne-Marie said:

This sounds to me like a simple confusion of settings with Page Setup. You may need to select either landscape and/or short edge binding somewhere for your printer. Have you tried clicking the Print Settings button in Print Booklet and fiddling with the settings there? You can keep checking the Preview panel to see if you're getting there.

AM

Thanks to your tip about the short edge binding in the area of duplex binding. I set this to “Short-side stapling (Top), and also setting “Scale to fit” in Print settings, and can now do what I want: make an A5 booklet. I had at some time experimented with these two settings but there are so many variables in Printing a Booklet that some other setting must have been wrong which caused failure.

Thanks for the help.

However, because of the large number of variable settings, Adobe's help files could, in my opinion, give some more guidance. Also, I have recently bought the Quickstart Guide to Indesign 5.5 and there is only a tiny mention of the “need to experiment” with the various settings! Too true! Some guidance on curing bad results could surely have been given.

Also, I wonder why InDesign can handle only 2-up booklets. I have made myself an InDesign document imposed with 4-up, each of the imposed pages flowing the text in the correct order, just using the InDesign document (no Print Booklet). Time-consuming to set up but it works well.