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November 23, 2017
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How to set up InDesign to print two pages on one 8.5x11 sheet?

  • November 23, 2017
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Hello, I want to make a spiral bound book that will be 8.5 x 5.5. Of course I want to first print to 8.5x11 sheet of paper and later cut that in half (where each page would be 8.5x5.5). Can someone tell me how to set that up? I want to add page # also.

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    rob day
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    November 25, 2017

    Going to do the binding mysellf.

    Does your printer print duplex? I think to get InDesign's Print Booklet to work you will need a duplex printer. Otherwise you can export a PDF and use Acrobat's Booklet feature, which will let you print the front and back of the sheet separately.

    jane-e
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    November 23, 2017

    Who will be doing the spiral binding?

    Who will be doing the final printing?

    nashvillecsx作成者
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    November 25, 2017

    Going to do the binding mysellf.

    Bill Silbert
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    November 23, 2017

    In addition to what Derek and Jongware said you should be aware that if there is any art that bleeds then you will have to print your pages on a larger page size with crop marks and then trim them to size. This is because virtually every printer needs approximately a quarter of an inch for its grippers and that quarter of an inch will print as just blank paper. Also, professionally speaking, spiral bound books should be prepared as single pages with bleed all around since they will actually be printed as single pages and then bound with wire.

    nashvillecsx作成者
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    November 23, 2017

    Thanks guys for your helpful replies.

    I've been researching this on the web and it looks like I need to utilize the Booklet printing feature in InDesign.

    Any of you have experience with that feature?

    Derek Cross
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    November 23, 2017

    No!

    Derek Cross
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    November 23, 2017

    Are you proposing to print this document on your desk-top printer? If so I suggest you do some tests before you proceed to see if it's feasible – that is to day whether you can print double sided sheets that register.

    If you're cutting these in half by hand you can set it up as two facing pages (or one large one!).

    You add page numbers via the Master pages – Create a Text Frame then: Type > Insert Special Character > Markers > Current Page Number (a letter A will be inserted which you can position and format and which will appear as the page number on the document's pages).

    Jongware
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    November 23, 2017

    https://forums.adobe.com/people/Derek+Cross  wrote

    If you're cutting these in half by hand you can set it up as two facing pages (or one large one!).

    Good advice all the way up to the "as one large one"! You mustn't'n't do that – InDesign is only able to add proper page numbers to proper individual pages, and it's limited to One Page Number Per Page as well.

    Derek Cross
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    November 23, 2017

    Yeah, thanks – I was thinking that, after I posted!