Place over 2 pages, booklet

Kenneth Andersson

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    • November 9, 2018 at 5:52 am #111401
      Kenneth Andersson
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      I’ve got an A3-PDF I would like to print as A4-booklet.
      But the the pages are in numerical order so I get the wrong imposition.

      This was hard to explain but I want to place each of these A3-pages over two A4 Portrait Facing Pages in Indesign. That should work, right?

      But it’s 178 pages so can I use PlacemultipagePDF in Indesign, and then change the document settings to A4 Portrait Facing Pages without the content to jump around?

      Or any other solution?

    • November 13, 2018 at 11:15 am #111519
      Kenneth Andersson
      Member

      I found one solution.

      1. Create a new A4 document
      2. Run the script “PlaceMultipagePDF” on that document with the desired PDF. Place PDF on: “1”, when prompted.
      3. Create and run a new script, info found here: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/741023
      4. Remove page 2 (should be an empty page)
      5. File > Document Setup > Tick the Facing Pages – OK

      Then I had to adjust the layout of the first page.
      Also, add a final single page, copy/paste the first page there and adjust it to get the back cover correct.

      Now I could print it as booklet, woho! (Then the printer said the job was to large, but that’s a different problem)

    • November 13, 2018 at 11:17 am #111551
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Glad it worked! Here are a couple other ideas:

      https://creativepro.com/how-to-split-up-single-page-into-multipage-spread.php
      https://creativepro.com/making-spreads-from-single-sided-pages.php

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