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The why doesn't matter here, does it?
By @Laia36064075ue41
The "why" almost always matters, especially in cases like this where there are so many ways to accomplish something.
I can't tell from your screen captures what you're getting vs. what you want to get. Is the third screen captures with spreads what you're actually getting instead of what you expect? Because I'm sure your page numbering is scrambled in that third screen, it's messed up in numbering that would be entirely wrong, in ways that I wouldn't ever expect conventional page numbers to go. The spreads you're showing in your third capture have two adding up to to 16, two adding up to 15, and two I have no idea what they add up to.
Please let me offer you some tips in setting up standard pagination for a single signature booklet. These rules apply if you want to biuld the printer's spreads yourself or if you want to let InDesign or Acrobat build your booklet automatically:
- The odd page number always goes to the right. So for the front cover, page 1 would go to the right, because the odd page number always goes to the right, and page 12 would go to the left.
- The sum of page numbers in all the printer's spreads in any single signature booklet add up to one more than the total number of pages in the booklet. You should have no two page spreads with even numbers on the right, because the odd page number always goes to the right, and if we flop Page 9 from the left side to the right in Plego 5 de 6 the page to the left of page 9 should be 4, [Páginas (4,9)] because if add up the pages in the printer's spread, they should add up to 13, or one more than the total number of pages in the booklet. For the same reasons, pages 6 and 7 should go together as the center spread of your 12-page booklet.
But you shouldn't need to do any of that. Have you built the two-page spreads yourself? Your document file can create booklets from single pages, either using the Facing Pages option (to see reader's spreads e.g. 2-3, 6-7, 10-11) or single page layouts to build correct printer's spreads automatically.
Please let me use a 16-page brochure for an example.
Working straight from InDesign, you can build a booklet using the File>Print Booklet... menu command, as shown below.
This opens the Print Booklet dialog box. Choosing 2-up Saddle Stitch in the Booklet Type: options box should get you the following preview results — for my 16 page booklet, the preview shows page 2 paired with 15. Page 15 goes to the right, because the odd page always goes to the right. and if you add the two page numbers up they equal 17, or one more than the total number of pages in the booklet.
Same rules apply where page 3 pairs up with page 14 to the left, as shown below. The page numbers add up to 17, equal 17, or one more than the total number of pages in the booklet, and page 3 is on the right side, because the odd page always goes to the right.
When I printed the spreads out on my tabloid-page Xerox laser printer, I got exactly the booklet spreads I expected to assemble the 16-page booklet correctly.
I think your problems are coming in because 1) you seem to have created the printer's spreads yourself manually instead of letting InDesign and/or Acrobat to do that for you from single pages/reader's spreads in your document file automatically, and 2) you didn't use the two rules outlined in the bulleted text above to ensure you got the results you wanted.
I hope this translates cleanly into Spanish, and will help you use InDesign to create the pages, generate the printer's spreads, and produce the booklet results that you're looking for.
Hope this helps,
Randy
Hi @Laia36064075ue41 , Can you also show the Print Booklet > Print>Settings...>Pint Setup?
And also your Pages Panel—is page 1 starting to the right of the spine? :
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