Booklet layout with a gate fold.

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October 4, 2023
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Hi all, hope someone can help. I need to produce a booklet (user manual) and the first page (not the cover) has to fold out (a gate fold) so it can be referenced while the rest of the booklet is used. I will need to be printed on both sides. Any idea how I lay this out?

Ddog9

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Create each side as 4 single pages with each of the 2 outer pages 1/8" narrower than the 2 inner pages. Your printer then has extra space for the gate fold. The printer should be able to impose with their imposition software (Preps) for their presses.

James Gifford—NitroPress

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Are you printing this in-house (office-grade printer, hand binding, etc.) or will it be commercially produced?

Basically, you are going to want to use a spread defined in the Parent Pages, or possibly a double-width page, in the right places. I don't know if this can be handled by the default booklet features in either InDesign or Acrobat, so for in-house work it would have to be a manual print, assembly and bind job, and for a commercial printing... you will need to ask the printer and follow their setup instructions very carefully.

TyBBAuthor

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This will be commercially printed, I'll do what you suggested and contact the printer (this will be fun, I'm in the UK they are in China...🙄)

TyBBAuthor

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Hi @TyBB , I setup gatefolds as reader spreads relative to the facing pages’ spine, and let the printer handle the gatefold imposition—you might want to provide a folded dummy so it is clear you want pages 1, 2 & 3 to gatefold.

This would be the text interior with no cover:

More than helpful, thanks.

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