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• • January 23, 2025 at 2:52 pm #14410982
    L D

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    Hi, I’d love some advice on how to set up a book for print.
    Its going to be spiral bound. So the way I’m printing is 2-up: 1 spread/2 pages a sheet, double sided, on 8.5×11 sheets. final trim size is 5×8″.
    I thought I could leave the pages as spreads and just trim down the middle, but I face palmed when I realized the order will be so off!
    thanks!

  • January 23, 2025 at 2:57 pm #14410983
    Stacey Horne

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    In Indesign use the print book feature to paginate into printer spreads. Save the file as an EPS. Take the EPS into Acrobat Distiller. This will create a paginated PDF that you can print.

  • January 23, 2025 at 3:27 pm #14410988
    David Blatner

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    I’m not sure why you’d need to go EPS to Distiller, etc. That seems difficult.

    You might be able to use Print > Print Booklet?

    Just to confirm: Are you going to be printing this yourself, and cutting the sheets apart, etc? Or are you sending it to a printer? If you’re sending it to a printer, just export a PDF with each page on it own, and have the printer do the imposition for you!

  • January 23, 2025 at 3:35 pm #14410989
    L D

    Participant

    Hi David, I’m printing/trimming myself. making 20 of these books. The issues to use the pagination feature is that its not like perfect binding, that pagination unfortunately does not work for this purpose. I could hand arrange the sheets after cutting the spreads down the middle, but that would take so much time.

  • January 24, 2025 at 3:43 am #14411018
    Petar Petrenko

    Participant

    If you have Quite Imposing Plus plug-in for Acrobat, you can do it very easily and quickly.

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