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May 31, 2023
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How to print A4 double spread on a landscape A3

  • May 31, 2023
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Our class has done magazine covers and double spread on portrait A4 pages. I would like to print drafts of them on A3 pages in landscape so we can fold them in half and get a feel for what they would look like in magazine format.

 

 

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Community Expert
May 31, 2023

File>Print

Click the Spreads option - and type in 1-2 

 

Your setup is a bit strange

Best to have the backcover as the last page 

Or if you want it this way - it's best to have the cover in a separate file. 

 

But whatever suits. Just so strange to have the back cover and front cover at the start of the magazine.

Did your tutor show you that? 

Randy Hagan
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Community Expert
May 31, 2023

Before we get into that, do you have a printer that can handle A3 sheets with a bleed? How are you going to print your drafts? That helps determine what we need to do to help you output your proofs.

 

You can just create a one-page A3 document and do your mockup on the larger sheet size. If it's just as prototype, page numbering doesn't even enter into it. So just design a document that would be a big as a two-page spread — or in your case, Back Cover/Front Cover spread — and print it out on an A3 sheet output device. You should get the perfect proof doing just that.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Randy