How to get booklet printing?

If you want to booklet print a small document as a one off and do not want to buy some software or the software doesn't work on your computer then the following worked for me. I had a pdf, I suggest that you create a pdf of your document first using the pdf document option in the print dialog.

In my case I had a 16 page A4 document that I wanted to make into A5 booklet using a single sided HP1300 printer from a Yosemite Mac Book Pro.

1) Make a small dummy booklet using post-its or similar and number the pages. Then separate the pages out so that you have a little model in front of you that shows you the following

The page numbers that needs to be on each sheet. In my case I had

• Sheet 1([16, 1][2, 15])
• Sheet 2 ([14, 3][4, 13])
• Sheet 3([6, 11][12, 5])
• Sheet 4 ([8, 9][10, 7])

2) Next use preview to open your document and to do the first sheet

• Use the side bar select option to choose sheets 16 and 1 (use the command key for non-contiguous pages).
• In the print dialog choose "Selected Pages in Side bar"
• In Layout choose 2 pages per sheet
• Because you will need 16 on the left and 1 on the Right change the Layout direction so that the page 16 is on the left in the preview.
• Print this sheet.

3) On the reverse of the sheet you just printed

• you need page 2 and 15 and proceed as for section 2 except you do not need to change Layout direction.
• Feed the sheet from 2 into the printer, the top of the page to the left and facing downward (in the Case of a HP1200-1300 type printer)

4) You now have Sheet 1 so proceed as above for the other 3 sheets.

This is called imposition. Pages does not have it as a feature but there are ways to achieve it:

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

Peter

I can't help you with Word. I use Pages and Create booklet. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/21068/create-booklet-pdf-service

Install the create booklet service and you'l will find the option in the File > Print window.

Write the document with normal pages. Save the original first in Pages format. Then press Cmd + P choose PDF button down to the right. In the pop up menu choose Create booklet. Wait a few seconds an Preview will open the new document with the pages imposed ready to be printed.

I can't help you with the duplex printing though. What I do when I print the document is to in the print dialog first print the odd pages and then after I put back the printed papers I print the even pages.

I'm so thrilled with how this App works, I'm giddy!!!!!

I was actually at the Apple Genius Bar today because I knew there HAD to be a way to make Pages create a booklet. Their suggestion to me was to open the document in MS Word, and use the booklet function there to print. Really????

Your app has solved my problems, and it was very easy to use.

Thank you!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!

Or you could purchase Create Booklet from the OS X App Store for $10USD. It offers automatic and manual duplex options, and resides on the File ▸ Print ▸ PDF submenu. This application has been around since 2005, and was last updated June 2015.

And not in the Mac App Store, and available for $35USD, is Cheap Imposter (imposition) software. Also stated to have Yosemite compatibility.

If only I had started my post with

"If you want to booklet print a small document as a one off and do not want to buy some software"

Oh! but I did.

I can hardly remember the last time I had to print a booklet and then I used pdf2book on linux (open source and free). It certainly was not worth $10 to me to get one print in the format I wanted.

It depends on usage frequency, the cost of lost time, and personal choice — whether that $10USD app store purchase would be worthwhile. If one is so inclined, they could even follow your manual imposition instructions.

Well thanks for your oblique agreement with me. "One off" being a frequency in my case of 1. Time being small, and yes, personal choice where your "solution" was more than adequately covered earlier in the post.

My old version of Create Booklet wasn't working--but after reading this forum, I downloaded the latest version and it's AWESOME. It even lets me put in page numbers, which a two-column in Word wouldn't let me do. Yay!!!

Forgot to say that when it opens in Preview you have to save the document somewhere where you'll find it. Otherwise if you just close it it is lost.