Booklet printing
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- Ravdyk
Is it possible to print a booklet with 2-up perfect bound without a signature?
I don't want to go stitching up my pages just want to clue them all together is this even possible or am I talking just plain stupid?
- Amicus0
umm... maybe we are plain stupid, but we don't catch your drift.
- jaylarson0
draw a picture
- hulahhoop0
buur, proper english, please.
- monospaced0
What is sounds like is that you're asking if you can have a book perfect bound. I guess if it's small enough and it'll be a single signature and wouldn't require any stitching, but what is your problem with signatures in the first place?
- Ravdyk0
Ok let me try and refraise. (Sorry for my poor english)
Normally when you print a booklet you have a signature with for example 4 pages witch you fold and stitch together, after that you stack the signatures to glue them.
I don't want to stitch anything so I just want to print all the pages. Fold them and stack them on top of each other and glue them. Is this possible? If so how do I export it the right way from indesign?
- rascuache0
Depends on how many pages, but you can probably stitch more than 4 sheets/16 pages depending on your paper.
To work out how to lay them out, the simplest way is to make a blank paper mockup with the right number of pages, write the name of the desired content on each page. Take it apart and that'll give you your basic imposition (if that's the right word), and show you how to lay your spreads out in InDesign.
- < NOT the simplest. There are booklet settings in InDesignmonospaced
- So fannying around with settings that he may not understand is easier than pencil and paper? Right you are sir..rascuache
- imposition is the right word. **swoon** /printerbriareos
- monospaced0
You export the same way. But, instead of folding and stitching, they just cut them in half instead and hand you a stack of virtually useless double-sided pages. Are you actually intending to bind it yourself?
- Ravdyk0
Thanks!