I need imposition advice for Publisher

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Two pages per half of each double-sided side of paper. Thus, numbers of facing pages will be 8/1, 7/2, 6/3, and 4/5. Want to make text flow accordingly. How, please.

[Old Bruce]

Welcome to the forums @Dagwood Bumstead,

Your best bet is to see if your printer's driver has the ability to print Booklets. Export your Affinity Publisher file as single pages instead of Spreads (which is the default option) then open the PDF in a PDF viewer and print from that.

Imposition is fraught with peril. Oh, and how is Blondie doing?

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Thanks, Bruce. This leaves unanswered the question about text flow. And when designing the pages it would obviously be a huge advantage if I could see the pages side by side, as they will ultimately appear.

 Blonde played at Glastonbury this past summer.

[walt.farrell]

42 minutes ago, Dagwood Bumstead said:

This leaves unanswered the question about text flow. And when designing the pages it would obviously be a huge advantage if I could see the pages side by side, as they will ultimately appear.

I'm not sure I understand that.

Generally, within the Publisher document, pages will be in the order 1, 2, 3, ... 8 and text will flow in that order.

If you're printing a booklet, you will generally want to print 1 and 8 together, but the text does not flow between them. The text still flows from 1 to 2, and ultimately from 7 to 8. The process of putting the page data into the right order so that the printer does 1/8, etc. is handled by an imposition process. That can be Printing in Booklet mode within Publisher, but if you're Exporting to PDF it can't be done in the Export dialog. You could, perhaps, use Booklet mode in the Print dialog and Print to a PDF driver.

Does that help?