Printing (2) A4 pages on A5 paper

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Printing (2) A4 pages on A5 paper

I've designed my book to be A5 size, now I'd like to do a sample print to see how the pages will look. What settings do I use to get (2) A5 pages, side by side, on an A4 size piece of paper.

iMac 2.66 GHz 20", Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Aug 24, 2010 9:35 AM

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fruhulda

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Aug 24, 2010 9:47 AM in response to ark-1

In the printer dialog window > layout choose to print two pages on one sheet

!http://a.imageshack.us/img192/3223/2sidorpa1.jpg!

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ark-1 Author

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Aug 24, 2010 9:53 AM in response to fruhulda

Thank Fruhulda - but that shrinks the paper to fit. I need to see EXACTLY how an A5 page will print out - and each setting I play with through my printer, or PDF shrinks the pages. I can't rely on it as accurate.

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Aug 24, 2010 9:59 AM in response to ark-1

That is because it isn't it also shrinks to fit margins.

You need to impose your document:

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=181&highlight=imposi tion&mforum=iworktipsntrick

Peter

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ark-1 Author

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Aug 24, 2010 10:20 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Impose? I'm downloading Swift Publisher, as per your advice, and I'm hoping there will be an easy way there. Its not working because additional margins are being set automatically?

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fruhulda

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Aug 24, 2010 10:31 AM in response to ark-1

It looked so good in the Printer dialog window but you are it doesn't work.

I managed by first Make sure that all setting in the printer dialog didn't shrink the pages.
Then I printed to PDF.
Opened the doc in Preview and started the printing dialog. Here I went through all settings to make sure that nothing would shrink which also Preview wanted too.
Now I could print and it looked perfect in my eyes.

It must be something wrong when it looks good in the printer dialog window but it doesn't print it like that.

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ark-1 Author

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Aug 24, 2010 10:37 AM in response to fruhulda

I'm obviously missing something, but I don't know what. I set the Page Setup to A5. I set the printer paper to A4, 2 up on a page, no scaling down. I've tried every setting thru the program and printer and PDF - nada. No luck.

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fruhulda

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Aug 24, 2010 11:01 AM in response to ark-1

Here are some images.

This one is from Pages print window. Use the PDF button when you have set all settings.

!http://a.imageshack.us/img412/8141/pagesprint.jpg!

Now open the saved PDF in Preview. This is the first place to set settings.

!http://a.imageshack.us/img541/2451/previewprint.jpg!

And here is the second place to set the settings. Now you can click the Print button. Try first to just print one page to make sure it works.

!http://a.imageshack.us/img827/7750/previewpaperhandling.jpg!

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ark-1 Author

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Aug 24, 2010 11:34 AM in response to fruhulda

Thank you for the illustrations - I'm still struggling. I am following what you said, but shouldn't I indicate 2 images per page? How does the program know that I want to print (2) A5 up? Also - it didn't give me the A4 borderless option. Also, I can open PDF in Preview, you mentioned saved PDF - which means I have to save the PDF to a location. Still working on it...

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fruhulda

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Aug 24, 2010 11:44 AM in response to ark-1

Yes, I didn't take a screen shot of that one. In that window you only set 2 pages on 1 sheet.

The program knows that you have A5 pages in Pages, right?

Maybe your printer don't have a A4 borderless option.

You always have to save documents to a location. When testing things like this I save it to the Desktop which make it easier to find and delete. If I want to keep the document for a longer time I put it in a folder somewhere logical to me.

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ark-1 Author

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Aug 24, 2010 11:51 AM in response to fruhulda

Yes, I used 2 up on a page. Yes, the program knows I want A5. A4 borderless option is not possible (I tried,it rejected it). Its still not happening - and there are so many steps here, I'm not sure which one is not responding. Once I printed, and the lettering was huge, second time - too small. Not once was I able to get it exactly to A5 size. I'm running out of hope. Can you read my frustration/tears???

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ark-1 Author

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Aug 24, 2010 12:05 PM in response to fruhulda

I'm getting there! I see where I misunderstood wrote you wrote - did it better this time - but since there's no A4 borderless option, increasing the scale to 100% is not enough. Do you know what the additional percentage would be to recreate an actual A5 size?

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fruhulda

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Aug 24, 2010 12:09 PM in response to ark-1

I absolutely understand your frustration.

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