Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 737)

Printing booklets
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Impose a document for booklet printing
Understanding creep
Preview or view a summary of booklet printing
Troubleshooting booklet printing
Impose a document for booklet printing
The Print Booklet feature lets you create printer spreads for professional printing. For example, if you’re editing an 8-page booklet, the pages
appear in sequential order in the layout window. However, in printer spreads, page 2 is positioned next to page 7, so that when the two pages are
printed on the same sheet, folded, and collated, the pages end up in the appropriate order.
Pages appear in sequence in the layout window, but are printed in a different order so that they appear correct when folded and bound.
The process of creating printer spreads from layout spreads is called imposition. While imposing pages, you can change settings to adjust spacing
between pages, margins, bleed, and creep. The layout of your InDesign document is not affected, because the imposition is all handled in the print
stream. No pages are shuffled or rotated in the document.
Jeff Witchel from Infiniteskills.com demonstrates Priniting booklets from your desktop printer .
You cannot create a new document based on the imposed pages. In addition, if your document includes multiple page sizes, you cannot
use Print Booklet to impose a document.
1. Choose File > Print Booklet.
2. If a printer preset has the settings you want, choose it in the Print Preset menu.
To use the print settings (as they appear in the Print dialog box) of the current document, choose Current Document Settings from the Print
Preset menu.
3. If you don’t want the entire document to be imposed, select Range in the Setup area and specify which pages to include in the imposition.
Use hyphens to separate consecutive page numbers, and commas for nonadjacent page numbers. For example, typing 3-7, 16 imposes
pages 3 through 7 and 16.
If you have divided the document into sections of page numbers, you should enter section page numbers (such as Sec2:11) in the
Range field.
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