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December 30, 2013
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How do I set up an 8.5x11 booklet/document on 11x17 paper, pages 4-1 on one side, 2-3 on the other?

  • December 30, 2013
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I realize this is commonly done, but when I create the new document, my pasteboard shows only page 1 on the right side (blank on the left), pages 2 and 3 in the next panel, and in the third panel, page 4 on the left side (blank on the right).

I haven't tried printing it yet, and maybe pages 1 and 4 will print together on one sheet as they should.  But if that's true, wouldn't the pasteboard show just two panes?  Pages 4-1, and then pages 2-3 below it?

And while I'm asking this question, what if I want to add a second sheet?  In that case, the first panel would be pages 8 and 1, the second panel would be 2 and 7, the third would be 3 and 6, and the fourth should be 4 and 5.

If there is a standard way to set this up, I'm very grateful for the answer.

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Peter Spier
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 31, 2013

You can also turn off Page Shuffling in the Pages panel flyout menu and simply drag page 4 next to page 1, then print or export as spreads for a 4-page file.

Participant
December 30, 2013

Some time back I figured this out and gosh I forgot how i did it.

because of lack of time here is one thing you can do to jump over this problem.

Leave page 1 empty.

design in page 2-3 & 4-5. 

when you print just print from 2-5, skipping 1.

Also you can export your document as a PDF with spreads, but only pages 2-5.

You'll get a PDF with two 11x17

guswahAuthor
Participant
December 31, 2013

This is helpful, thanks, but still not applicable.  Remember that I have three vertical levels in my current setup:

Top pane: page 1

Mid pane: page 2 + page 3

Lower pane: page 4

You've referred to pages 4-5 in your solution, but I don't have a page 5.  You must have been set up differently.

Larry G. Schneider
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 31, 2013

Add a new page to the page 4 level and ignore page one. If you've already created the 4 page document you could export it as a PDF, use the Extract Pages option in Acrobat and place the new PDFs as a single page to get the 4-1, 2-3 you need to print the file.