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tzaharia79
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January 21, 2020
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Adjusting Pages To Front & Back Rather Than the Same Page

  • January 21, 2020
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I'm an InDesign newb. I know very little in terms of in depth know how so I am sorry if this comes off as duh.

 

I am trying to make a small catalog for my architecture company. All I want, as an example, is for the page not to be split into 1 paper. I want one page to be the front side, and the next page to the be the back side. Every time I go into Print Booklet Preview the spread shows that my pages are being applied as though 2 pages will be on one side of the paper. I have no idea how to customize that so each page is front and back, then you do the next two pages on the next piece of paper, one page on the front and one on the back. 

 

What am I missing?

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Correct answer BobLevine
Why are you using print booklet? A far easier method, if you are indeed imposing a document to print as a booklet is to export a proper PDF and then print it from Acrobat using the booklet feature there.

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SJRiegel
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January 21, 2020

Reading your post again, if what you want is letter-size sheets printed front and back, then Print Booklet is not what you want. In that case, you should use the regular Print dialog, and choose two-sided from your printer's settings.

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    tzaharia79Author
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    January 21, 2020

    That was my first attempt but I think I was not succesful because I couldn't understand some of the InDesign setup to build the pages. Now that I am about an hour smarter it is coming out how I was hoping for. Thanks for redirecting back at the right time!

    jane-e
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    jane-eCommunity Expert
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    January 21, 2020

    I agree with Susan. You probably don't need Print Booklet. If you have something like I have below, 1 & 4 will print on the same page and 2&3 will be on the other side, then the piece of paper will be folded. The paper needs to be twice as wide as each page or the pages will be shrunk for proofing purposes.

    ~ Jane

     

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      SJRiegel
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      January 21, 2020

      I belive that when you are using InDesign's built-in Print Booklet function, you have to set the paper size for the full sheet, not a single page as you might do in the printer's setup. So for a letter-size pages to print as a booklet from that dialog, you will need to set your paper size to 11 x 17 landscape.

        jane-e
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        jane-eCommunity Expert
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        January 21, 2020

        Hi

        Can you show your pages panel? You should have two pages in your document. Is that what you have?

        ~ Jane

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          tzaharia79Author
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          January 21, 2020

          In the preview pane (I know I moved the images to page 4) it shows 2 pages, but warns me that the booklet doesnt fit the current paper size. This is telling me it is trying to print each page on one side of the paper. I don't want that. I want what says page 4 (its actually 3)to be on the other side of the paper that gets printed.

           

           

            BobLevine
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            BobLevineCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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            January 21, 2020
            Why are you using print booklet? A far easier method, if you are indeed imposing a document to print as a booklet is to export a proper PDF and then print it from Acrobat using the booklet feature there.
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