booklet exportation left out of this version

[Scherzo Editions]

I'm a publisher and would love to see an "export as booklet" option on this new version. I work on my files in a normal 1.2.3... sequence facing pages but then have to create a new file to set booklet sequence. This is quite annoying because I use crop marks for the printing shop to be guided.

Will it be an option in the future?

[walt.farrell]

Serif generally doesn't comment on the future, so they're unlikely to answer and no one else knows.

Does it help you to export using the "Area: All Pages" option? That's not Booklet, but it's at least single pages, and the print shop should be able to do the imposition from there. Or you could use another imposition product to reorder the PDF pages.

[Scherzo Editions]

My deal with the shop is to send everything prepared to print. I'm afraid of importing the files to other software, it may change quality, etc. 

[five3141two]

 would also be interested in a detailed print function for booklets/Signatures

My problem is exactly this: I export the file as a PDF, convert the sequential printout into a booklet version with bookletCreator. This booklet version has the order of the layers and the order of the pages in the layers already arranged correctly. Then I print it out the separate signatures using the macOS preview. Unfortunately, the quality sometimes suffers as a result, especially with inserted SVG graphics.

The option to print the document in signatures with optional control for the number of pages per signature would be perfect. This would make it possible to print directly from AffPub without exporting. I bind books myself and need such an option quite often.

 

[mwgillette]

Being able to print a book in signatures would be fantastic!  I don't think that can be done at this time.  For example.  Being able to print 16 pages, front and back, onto 4 sheets of paper with the numbering coming out correctly in booklet form.  This can be done for 16 pages but not for something like 192 pages printed onto 48 sheets giving 12 signatures which could be bound.

One way might be the ability to print sections separately.  The book could be divided into 16 page sections.  Each section treated like a booklet when printed.  I don't see a way to print sections at this time.  

I've been copying each 16 pages into a new document and printing each as a booklet.  So for example, pages 1-6, 17-32, 33-48, 49-64......etc.  This takes a lot of planning.

 

[Oufti]

On 11/23/2024 at 5:53 PM, five3141two said:

The option to print the document in signatures with optional control for the number of pages per signature would be perfect. This would make it possible to print directly from AffPub without exporting. I bind books myself and need such an option quite often.

You could use this spreadsheet that calculates for you the sequence of page numbers to be pasted in the print dialog: