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INDESIGN: want to make a double sided booklet

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July 18, 2022
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Howdy,

I'm trying to make a booklet, sometimes called dos-a-dos, where there are two front covers for two different stories that meet in the middle. One of the stories is upside down and backwards compared to the other.

I'm trying to make this InDesign and plan to print pdf at MagCloud. I can rotate the pages in "page attribute --> rotation --> 180" and it appears upside down while Indesign. That change doesn't carry through into the PDF export, the export appears to "correct" it.

Attached see a sort of silly example of what I'm aiming for.

Any help sincerely appreciated.

The Real Brooklyn Pirate

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Mejor respuesta de James Gifford—NitroPress

Also called "Ace Doubles" format after a famous line of discount paperbacks that used the format to include two short novels in the same book.

If you have half the pages laid out 'right side up' and half laid out 'inverted,' the PDF should export them exactly like that. However, I would rotate the text frames directly, not via a page attribute.

Or export the book with all pages right side up (and the second story flow reverse-linked), then in Acrobat, select all the second-half pages and rotate them there.

You should make sure that any publisher/distribution house allows such format, by the way. Kindle/KDP specifically and absolutely forbids it and will reject all such submissions.

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Laubender

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@James Gifford—NitroPress said: "Rotating the pages won't change the page flow order."

Hi James,

yes, of course, it does not.

The next step would be to place the pages in reverse order with the help of the MultiPageImporter script.

You can determine the start page, you could check "Reverse Page Order", you could place InDesign pages or PDF pages:

Originally written by Scott Zanelli, now curated by Mike Edel:

https://github.com/mike-edel/ID-MultiPageImporter/releases

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

Luke Jennings3

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It's worth noting that effects, like drop shadows, won't respect the object rotation, it will work when the page is rotated, without moving the page contents, as Uwe suggests, or when a separate InDesign file is placed and rotated.

James Gifford—NitroPress

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Another of many arguments for doing the page rotation after export, in PDF. IMHO.

If for some reason one or a few pages need to be inverted (as is sometimes done in fairly normal layouts), that's one thing. But a wholesale flip of half a book... yes, it can be done in ID, but I'd bet the headaches would continue for a good while, and change with every project.

Set up the reverse flow, do all the layout and design (and proofing, and tweaking) in ID, then flip the second-half pages in the export PDF. Takes only three or four clickes, and bypasses all of ID's "control" of the elements.

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Laubender

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Hi @therealbrooklynpirate ,

you rotated the page view only with that option.

Simply use the Page tool plus the Transform panel and rotate the pages without their contents.

Select more than one page with Page tool:

[1] Start out with the Selection tool.

[2] Select all pages you want to rotate in the Pages panel

[3] Switch to the Page tool. Now all pages you had selected in the Pages panel are selected.

From my German InDesign on Windows 10 where you see the Control panel, the Pages panel and the Transform panel. The active tool is the Pages tool.

Go to the Transform panel and rotate the selected pages by 180°. Rotate around its center point.

Make sure you have the option unchecked that the contents should "move" along.

You find that option in the Control panel. See screenshot above.

Result after the transformation for the selected pages:

Export to PDF and your contents on the rotated pages is indeed rotated on the PDF pages.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

All correct from an ID process point of view, but —

Rotating the pages won't change the page flow order. I don't know of any way to do a reverse flow except manually linking them (in a zoom-out view) before placing the content. Am I missing a feature that will manage this?

And, it's a real pain to work with inverted pages. For simplicity, I'd leave the reverse-linked pages right side up, then rotate them as a group in Acrobat when they no longer have to be worked on or proofed.

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Luke Jennings3

Community Expert

Here is a link to a related discussion:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-cc-layout-a-dual-language-book-2nd-language-reverse-order-and-upside-down/m-p/9348673#M66002

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therealbrooklynpirateAutor

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Luke thanks. Funny seeing so many of exactly this type of book is what made me think of it in the first place. Thanks I'll read through that link carefully. Appreciate it!

James Gifford—NitroPressRespuesta

Legend

Also called "Ace Doubles" format after a famous line of discount paperbacks that used the format to include two short novels in the same book.

If you have half the pages laid out 'right side up' and half laid out 'inverted,' the PDF should export them exactly like that. However, I would rotate the text frames directly, not via a page attribute.

Or export the book with all pages right side up (and the second story flow reverse-linked), then in Acrobat, select all the second-half pages and rotate them there.

You should make sure that any publisher/distribution house allows such format, by the way. Kindle/KDP specifically and absolutely forbids it and will reject all such submissions.

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T

therealbrooklynpirateAutor

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Oh my worked like a charm! Thanks so much James it just wouldn't have occured to me. This "ace double" type book was incredibly common for dual language history books in the early 1900s. It's just such a cool thing. Really appreciate the help. B.Pirate.

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