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Hello,

 

I want to make small reference booklets, for instance lists of passwords and like that. I want these booklets to be 1/4 of a letter size document, that is, 4.25" x 5.5". Sometimes twice that, half of a letter size. I had the impression I have to have imposition software, such as my 'Montax Imposition', but I'm finding it very difficult to learn (newbie). I'm wondering if the imposition software is even necessary. Any opinions?

Thank you very much for reading this.

James

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Hi James,

I believe you should be able to do this in Publisher what kind of booklet is it you are trying to make?

Thanks

C

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If you save your books as PDF, readers such as Acrobat Reader and Foxit will do the imposition for you when printing booklets.
Also some printer drivers have a booklet function.

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PaulEC and Callum, thank you for your  replies. I will take you to heart and see what more I can do without grinding my brain with learning imposition. I am trying to learn too many new things at the same time.

Callum, my booklets would be just like the instruction manuals that come with most small pieces of hardware. How-to, listings, definitions, all kinds of text bits.

 

James

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save your book as pdf page to page easiest to make automatique imposition and put good numbers of pages even with one or two white ^^

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Any printer I've ever dealt with prefers to use their own imposition software, and you could never know all the printing workflows that exist. Just make a good, clean layout and let the printer use their impositioning software.

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Thanks, inspiredmac

Actually I'm trying to learn how to do imposition myself. Not everything, just be able to apply it to small pamphlets/booklets that I make for myself. It's something new to learn, and more complicated than I thought 😕 .

James

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