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ozfrog
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December 23, 2019
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Printing double faced 2 sheets per page in landscape mode.

  • December 23, 2019
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Hello,

A bit long winded, but not as long as the time I've wasted trying top get this happening.

A 83 page .pdf, Mac OS 10.14.6 => HP Envy 5540; Acrobat Pro 10.1.16

I wanted to make a flight manual from this .pdf, but in A5 format and double sided.

Printing 2 pages per A4 in landscape mode.

So on any given page - I want an odd numbered page on left and next odd numbered page on the right.

On the back of same page I want an even numbered page that follows sequentially the 1st odd numbered page on the left, and the following even numbered page on the right. Then cut the A4 in two.

In order to get a book like form with sequentially numbered pages in the right order as I turn.

First try - from the Adobe printing drop down - Booklet form - this looks ideal.

Result - the "recto" - odd numbered page printed OK, but the "verso" - even numbered page is upsidedown and the order is reversed. ------ Much fiddling and hair tearing later --------

Last try - after much tweaking the Adobe print menu and the Mac OS menu - I deleted all the odd numbered pages in the master file, then printed the even numbered pages from the Mac OS printer drop down. Then from the master file, deleted all the even numbered pages and printed off the odd numbered ones. Impossible to feed the odd numbered pages into the printer and get the even numbered pages to print right side up and behind their repective odd numbered pages correcxtly. Ended up printing them to blank A4s - cut and paste.

It shouldn't be this hard. 🙂

Ozfrog.

ecnalnixod@gmail.com

 

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ls_rbls
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ls_rblsCommunity Expert
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December 25, 2019

have you been able to customize the print settings  from the print driver application managed by the your operating system rather than using Adobe Acrobat?

 

Also, I was windering if you've been able to create any pre-flight profiles and apply your desired presets  using the print production tool.

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ozfrogAuthor
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December 25, 2019

Hello and thanks for the feedback. 

A couple of acronyms. MPA => MacOS printer application. 

APA => Adobe printer application. 

Your first point - as I couldn’t see any choice for printing 2 pages of the .pdf to a lendscape A4 in the APA, I had to go to the MPA to select this. When I hit print from the MPA it sends me automatically back to the APA from where I hit print again. 

Your second point. I haven’t looked at this for deadline reasons, but if you think my answer lies within, I’ll certainly check it out n for future use. 

Season’s greetings. Lance. 

ls_rbls
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ls_rblsCommunity Expert
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December 25, 2019

Hi,

 

Please disregard my guidance posted in my last reply; even though the preflight tool us useful in running analysis for a PDF document I don't see it fit for your case.

 

I went ahead and practiced with your shared pdf file in my Windows 10 using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

 

From the sources that I followed it seems that the key in making a  PDF booklet  is to apply a combination of steps from both the Acrobat application and the printer application, to include  knowing how to manually stack the first set of  front side printed pages and then apply the second part of the printing process for the backside.

 

I found a series of links that you may find useful below:

 

https://statusq.org/archives/2019/01/11/8893/ 

 

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/print-booklets-acrobat-reader.html 

 

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/ways-print-pdfs.html#print_a_booklet 

 

Third party app for macOS is offered as a solution in this old thread:

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/macintoshhowto.com/pages-and-publishing/how-to-print-a-booklet.html%3famp 

 

 

Interesting approach here duplexing:

 

https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/printing-booklet-duplex.html.en 

 

 

The next two videos illustrates better all the theory in a very easy format:

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v_IHweGS1ZA 

 

 

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wPjgriZYWsw 

 

 

Hope this helps.

 

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