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I'm making a 5.5 x 8.5 booklet. I've created the 5.5 pages in FrameMaker. How do I get them to print two-up onto a 8.5 x 11 landscape PDF? Also, how do I order the pages for two-sided printing while keeping the automatic page numbering from FrameMaker?
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If you're going to have a commercial printer do the printing, just do a straight PDF and let them do the imposition work to suit their workflow. That's what they're paid for and you're unlikely to have as much experience with their workflow as they do.
If you're looking at in-house or end-user/customer printing, you should use an Acrobat plug-in such as QuiteImposing or any of a number of other plug ins to do the imposition work. But be aware that many times you're going go make choices that a
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To print two pages side by side on a single sheet, just seleect Thumnails on the Print Dialog box and set it to two pages.
As far as page numbering goes, are you asking how to print FM 1&2 on one side of a sheet and 2&4 on theback of it? Or are you asking about imposing the pages in such a way that you can create a booklet?
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I need to impose the page order for a booklet,
Side 1= 4 & 5 Side 2 = 6 & 3
Side 1= 2 & 7 Side 2 = 1 & 8 etc
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OK,
If you're going to have a commercial printer do the printing, just do a straight PDF and let them do the imposition work to suit their workflow. That's what they're paid for and you're unlikely to have as much experience with their workflow as they do.
If you're looking at in-house or end-user/customer printing, you should use an Acrobat plug-in such as QuiteImposing or any of a number of other plug ins to do the imposition work. But be aware that many times you're going go make choices that aren't supported by a wide variety of printers or printer drivers -- how a printer does double sided, whether the sheet is rotated between passes and other options usually add a big unknown to solving this problem. You can certainly meet the requirements for one particular kind or model of printer, but beyond that, YMMV a lot.
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So I should just create single 8.5 x 5.5 pdfs?
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That would give you and whoever else prints it the most flexibility.
Pretty much any other path you take to prepare the document for "easy" hard copy printing is going to create a situation where stuff doesn't work on someone's system because you can't predict the system/hardware/printer limitations. If you know and control the final output device, sure, go ahead and tweak stuff. But if you don't, following the KISS principle would be better.