Multiple Pages Per Sheet

Question

So I am trying to learn how to do everything in Adobe InDesign CC that I previously accomplished in MS Publisher. I am making table name cards for a holiday party, and I am having a difficult time figuring out how to do "pages" and "sheets" (Publisher terms). I'm assuming this would be the same thing for holiday/greeting bi-fold cards.

Each table name card is a bi-fold of half a sheet (8.5" x 5.5" folded) and I am using standard letter size cardstock (8.5" x 11"), so there would be two table name cards for each sheet of paper (manually cutting) with "page" dimensions as follows:

Page 1 (front of table name card) 8.5" x 2.75"
Page 2 (back of table name card) 8.5" x 2.75"
Page 3 (inside of table name card) 8.5" x 2.75"
Page 4 (inside of table name card) 8.5" x 2.75"

I understand that I can manually have my InDesign document the size of a sheet of paper and rotate back sheets and copy and paste a mirror to have two printed per sheet; however, I'd like to only have to worry about updating one part. I figured if MS Project can do InDesign should be able to as well.

rob day · Accepted Answer

I'm not seeing how 4-Up Consecutive will give you the correct imposition. 4-up would let you print the 4 pages side by side (if the document's spine is on the long side), but you need to backup page 1 to 4 and page 2 to 3 twice. You can get the correct imposition with saddle stitch, but then you could only print one folded card per sheet.

You can place InDesign pages in another InDesign document using Edit>Place, so it might be easier to place and impose the 8.5"x2.75" pages in an 8.5x11 printer document. Then you could make edits to the placed document and simply update the printer document's links before the final print.

AnneMarie Concepcion · Answer

"I figured if MS Project can do InDesign should be able to as well." ... going down that road leads to madness. ;-) There are always a few things easier in one program than another. It took InDesign 15 years to do shaded paragraphs, a feature Word has had since 100 B.C. InDesign still can't automate slide builds (adding bulleted items one at a time) like Powerpoint can. The flip side of course, is that there are hundreds (at least) of things ID can do that the other programs cannot, like import/use RGB, CMYK, and Lab colors all in the same document, then convert them as needed (or not) when printing or exporting to PDF.

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