Problems With Printing Two Up

Hi Jonathan,
Yes it may be padding however, you're using two 5.5 documents on a 11 inch page. It's possible Pages is making the two documents smaller to fit the page of 11 inches. There's a non printing area such as 1/4 inch or more for printers. Pages may be doing a best efforts making your two 5.5 inches documents properly fit the page.

Hope this helps you. If not post back with more information.

Sincerely,

RicD

You are not the only one with this problem. I have been fighting this issue all day.

I have read the User Manual up and down, I have scoured the support pages, and I have spent untold fruitless hours with technical support... am currently still unable to solve this problem.

When using a Pages template, I am unable to change page size while holding the formatting together. No way to select all and group it - no way to start a blank document with the proper page size and then insert a (template) page, no way to change paper once the template is open....

I have a template from Pages (doesn't matter... pick any one at all that has formatting and objects, not straight text) which opens with a default page setup of paper size A4. Fine. In printer settings, "Choose Layout from the pop-up menu and choose the number of pages you want to appear on each sheet" (page 173, Chapter 10) which makes perfect sense to me.

I am trying to achieve two pages per sheet for a "tabloid" type publication. I wish to print on A3 - which should work perfectly - the page size in the end result (2 per sheet) is in fact A4, because A3 is two A4s laid side by side. So, this is as the formatting intended it should be, because smaller is too small and larger wouldn't work.

When I print I get:
a) the proper layout, but with the size being HALF an A4 instead of a full A4 (half an A3)
b) the right size (when changed in page setup) with formatting all over the map and all the work destroyed.

It is easy enough to say "Before you print, you should make sure the paper size and orientation are set the way you want by opening the Page Setup dialog" (page 169 Chapter 10) but these Pages templates are not able to be printed on ANY size of paper except A4 - the way they have been laid out originally. It doesn't matter which size you're trying to print - an invitation on smaller paper perhaps, a tabloid type newsletter on larger, anything at all on banner paper...

There has to be a fix for this somewhere.

Can anybody help?

I'm here for just this reason, I think

What I'm looking for was called "make booklette" in Pagemaker: take the 5.5x8.5 pages, re-organize them so they're 16-1, 2-15 and so forth, so I can print them double-sided on 8.5x11", fold and staple.

I am looking here first before I try printing to PDF and then editing it.

Welcome to Apple Discussions Jere

Pages does not have this ability built-in. I use the free Cocoa Booklet for this.

Peggy

Thanks for that. I came back to recommend the same thing. When I searched for "booklet" instead of "booklette", I got better matches.

After an hour or two of playing, it looks like I'll have to adjust my technique a bit to get it to work exactly how I want, but it's a real good start. I started with 5.5x8.5 and didn't want to start over again with 8.5x11 as a previous discussion indicated, so that could be most of my problem. I also found I needed to force the PDF to print at 100% from the default 94.

Because I use CocoaBooklet to do a weekly worship booklet, I've got my template fairly well set. Of course, after I did that, I was asked to make the print a bit bigger. I think I have the main body of the text at 18 points. I find that working with my document at 75% view & two up gives me a better idea of what it will look like. When I have the pages breaking where I want I export the Pages document as a PDF. The trickiest part was setting the margins in CocoaBooklet. I the CocoaBooklet preferences set at US Letter, left & right margins 0.25 & upper & lower margins 0.2. I then drag the PDF to the CocoaBooklet icon to create the booklet PDF. Last, I open the PDF in Preview, set the Page Setup to my printer & the scale to 108%. I found that I couldn't enlarge it before this stage without getting text clipped.

Peggy