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MS Office Forum / Publisher / Commercial Printing / February 2007Help setting up a booklet
I have tried doing this myself and have had no luck. I read the article about creating a book but not much help. I thought if I describe what I needed, someone could help me step by step. So here it goes... I am creating a (roughly) 15 page booklet which I will e-mail to my printers in a PDF format. The pages will be 4.25" by 5.5". I would like to have 4 pages on one 8.5" by 11" sheet of paper, so my printer can simply slice them all in half and arrange them to be folded and stapled. So the layout on 1 piece of paper should be for example: page 4 and 1 on the top half, then 2 and 3 on the bottom. My problem is that when I send the file to PDF or use print preview I see: on one page, 4 and 1 on the top, then 4 and 1 again. It seems it is doing 2 copies on one page, when want all 4 pages of the book to print on one page only. I hope this makes sense to someone and any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Wendy Are you using Pub 2007's add-in to create your pdf file or something else?  SignatureJoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 >I have tried doing this myself and have had no luck. I read the article >about [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Thanks in advance. > Wendy How many booklets will you be publishing? What you are trying to do requires your having a custom size stock. Publisher will want to print two identical documents using the page setup you require. SignatureMary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com >I have tried doing this myself and have had no luck. I read the article about > creating a book but not much help. I thought if I describe what I needed, [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thanks in advance. > Wendy Well I will be printing 1000 books but I need to send one final copy to the printers. I have Publisher 2003 and I use adobe PDF maker to convert the file to PDF. Regarding my page setup, lets pretend I am making a eight page book. I would like to print only one 8.5x11 sheet of paper (both sides), cut that in half and then fold and assemble the book. So the pages should be arranged in print preview as follows: page 1,8, page 2,7, page 3,6, page 4,5. Publisher however is making copies of the pages on one 8.5x11 sheet. (I knew this would be hard to describe) I thought it might have to do with the paper size and that it is not allowing me to have 4 pages per sheet of paper. Will I have to not use the booklet page setup and just use a normal page, then divide it up accordingly and arrange the pages myself? Thanks > How many booklets will you be publishing? What you are trying to do requires > your having a custom size stock. Publisher will want to print two identical [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Thanks in advance. > > Wendy I understand your setup. The problem is you want to print a mini-booklet. Publisher will print your setup in the correct order, but will print two copies per sheet. Publisher prints as though you are using letter stock. This should be okay for your printer to handle if you explain to him/her what you want. SignatureMary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com > Well I will be printing 1000 books but I need to send one final copy to the > printers. I have Publisher 2003 and I use adobe PDF maker to convert the file [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] >> > Thanks in advance. >> > Wendy Yes, but is there not a way to change the 2 copies per sheet? > I understand your setup. The problem is you want to print a mini-booklet. > Publisher will print your setup in the correct order, but will print two copies [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > >> > Thanks in advance. > >> > Wendy Hi. I know you'd like to do 4 different pages per sheet, but maybe you could do it this way. What if you had pages 1 and 4 print on one sheet, but two times, as you have now. Then the next page would do pages 2 and 3, two times. Print them one page on back of the other. Now you have two copies of your book. I'm trying to do something similar. How did you set up your original document? > I have tried doing this myself and have had no luck. I read the article about > creating a book but not much help. I thought if I describe what I needed, [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thanks in advance. > Wendy Wendy, After reading your problem I open Publisher 2003 and made a 'pretent' booklet it previewed fine. What I did is opened a blank 8.5x11 document. Used the arrangement settings to divide it into four equal parts. Then created copy blocks for each page. I put pages 1 and 4 at the top and pgs. 2 and 3 on the bottom. the trick came in when I saw to make it back up right pages 1 and 4 needed to be upside down. I turned these and preview fine. I hope this is a help Jim A working with Publisher since Publisher 97 > I have tried doing this myself and have had no luck. I read the article about > creating a book but not much help. I thought if I describe what I needed, [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thanks in advance. > Wendy |
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