Imposition

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Imposition

Anyone have any ideas how best to 'impose' in Pages.

What I want to do is print 2 A5 pages to each A4 sheet in such a way that, when I fold the whole 12 page booklet, the pages are in order. InDesign has only just got this built in, but surely everyone wants to be able to print booklets with double sided pages, it's not much of a booklet otherwise.

1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.4.6), 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM

Posted on Oct 20, 2006 1:11 PM

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Answer 1

Tulse

Level 5

5,812 points

Oct 20, 2006 2:04 PM in response to Nigel Robinson

Welcome to the discussions, Nigel.

There are some shareware solutions available that will work from PDFs, such as CocoaBooklet and Booklet Generator. I haven't used these myself, and there may be others available, but in general, you can do what you want without having to it directly within Pages.

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Answer 2

Kurt Weber

Level 6

13,969 points

Oct 20, 2006 5:26 PM in response to Tulse

I second Tulse's Cocoa Booklet recommendation. It works beautifully. Just make sure you have Pages comments feature turned off and all margins and pages will be imposed perfectly into a PDF.

That said, I like Pagemaker's 'build booklet' feature much better. Not only does it create the desired booklet, but the booklet continues to be completely editable. (It ends up as a Pagemaker doc not as a uneditable pdf).

Kurt

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