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Using Pages, I created a small 15 page booklet. It has a cover and back page and facing pages. How do I print it so it comes out in book format instead of separate print pages?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), macOS High Sierra (10.13.6), Pages Version 7.1

Posted on Jul 25, 2018 2:28 PM

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Your printer can do duplex printing so you will be able to print the pages above without refeeding the paper.


Just set up the page pairs as above.

Posted on Jul 27, 2018 9:01 AM

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Jul 26, 2018 7:16 AM in response to connielou

Ignore the previous advice. The book templates in Pages are for eBooks.


1. You should have 16pp, printed books/booklets come in sets of 4pp.


2. How are you going to print this? Digitally, desktop, commercial offset? How are you going to bind the pages.


3. If you are having it printed commercially talk to your printer what format they want your file in (probably not .pages). They probably can do the imposition for you.


4. If you are printing this yourself on your own printer you will need to print to PDF at best quality, then take the .pdf file and pass it through Imposition software which will do the page placement for you. Look for the software in the Apple Store or Mac update.com


5. Failing that you can manually reorder the pages of the PDF into the correct imposition order which you get by making up a dummy booklet with blank numbered pages and unfolding it to see what goes where. Which all depends how large a sheet you can print on and how you will bind it. To print longer runs you can drag the individual pages from the .pdf from Preview and bring them into a second Pages document where you position and orient them in the Imposed order.

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Jul 27, 2018 11:20 AM in response to connielou

Then your pages are:


front 16/01

back 02/15

——————

front 14/03

back 04/13

——————-

front 10/09

back 08/07


You will have to test how your printer prints the sheets, if you do them in the right order you can simply feed them back into the paper tray facing the other way and have all your booklets come out collated correctly.

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Jul 26, 2018 7:16 AM in response to connielou

Ignore the previous advice. The book templates in Pages are for eBooks.


1. You should have 16pp, printed books/booklets come in sets of 4pp.


2. How are you going to print this? Digitally, desktop, commercial offset? How are you going to bind the pages.


3. If you are having it printed commercially talk to your printer what format they want your file in (probably not .pages). They probably can do the imposition for you.


4. If you are printing this yourself on your own printer you will need to print to PDF at best quality, then take the .pdf file and pass it through Imposition software which will do the page placement for you. Look for the software in the Apple Store or Mac update.com


5. Failing that you can manually reorder the pages of the PDF into the correct imposition order which you get by making up a dummy booklet with blank numbered pages and unfolding it to see what goes where. Which all depends how large a sheet you can print on and how you will bind it. To print longer runs you can drag the individual pages from the .pdf from Preview and bring them into a second Pages document where you position and orient them in the Imposed order.

Jul 26, 2018 7:54 PM in response to connielou

I am still trying to find out how you are going to print this.


To give directions to go somewhere I need to know where you are going, not "from my house".


Telling me from my computer does not tell me where/what you are printing to nor how you are going to bind the booklet.


A desktop printer? Stapled?


If so, how big are your booklet pages, and how big are the sheets you can print to?

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Jul 27, 2018 11:20 AM in response to connielou

Then your pages are:


front 16/01

back 02/15

——————

front 14/03

back 04/13

——————-

front 10/09

back 08/07


You will have to test how your printer prints the sheets, if you do them in the right order you can simply feed them back into the paper tray facing the other way and have all your booklets come out collated correctly.

Jul 27, 2018 6:05 PM in response to connielou

Test how your printer works.


There are options for what order documents prints, low to high, or reverse order, and how the duplexing applies.


Create a series of pages in Pages with just the page numbers set in large bold text for easy viewing and print those as a test of the above imposition.


Make notes/screensnaps of what settings you have used for each test and include those in the document before you print, so you can compare the settings to the end result.


Once you have worked out what works, note that on the print out and keep it as the instructions so you can repeat it in real jobs.

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