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Hello,

I'm creating a vertical opening booklet in publisher 2. The client has requested a mockup. I thought I'd saddle stitch/staple bind the booklet after printing the pages, using duplex/double sided printing on my color printer. (Basically printing the spreads, then cutting them to size and folding them in half and stapling the sheets.)

The goal is to have it look similar to a detectives notepad that opens vertically. What I cannot figure out is how to print this? I exported the booklet as a pdf, and folded, but the arrangement of sheets comes out that leaves some pages upside down.

Seems like maybe some pages would have to be initially laid out in Publisher upside down so that when all the sheets are printed and folded it would be in proper sequence? Ugh. I am not sure how to lay this out for printing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Chris

 

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15 hours ago, chriscaldwell said:

Seems like maybe some pages would have to be initially laid out in Publisher upside down so that when all the sheets are printed and folded it would be in proper sequence?

You probably need to turn the upper pages (even pages) upside down, unless for pages that you want to see as a spread, both pages visible altogether. 

This is needed if you flip the pages vertically (around the binding above) but turn the pad horizontally (to keep the binding always above).

To be sure, you could take some sheets of paper, fold them, number the pages and write something on every page as you want to see it (in short, make a handwritten mockup…), then unfold it and look how it's done and reproduce the orientation in your file. 

To turn a page upside down, you can select all the content of the upper page and mirror it twice: once vertically and once horizontally, via the buttons on the toolbar — or just type 180° as rotation in the Transform panel. 

For some pages, you'll have to do this in the Master pages [=Maquettes] (e.g. p.8-9). 
For others, you probably will not want to change anything (e.g. p.4-5).

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But, comparing to your unfold manual mockup, you'll see this is only half the problem resolved: would you print spreads in their natural order, pages won't be at the good place after folding. You need to make what's called an imposition of the pages. 

Either you make it yourself in your document (not recommended as it's time consuming and error prone), either you export a PDF with Zone = All pages, not all spreads as it is by default. Then you print them and the printer driver should offer you a booklet option that will do the imposition for you. 

(BTW, your file misses a last cover page, which for example will be printed on the same side of a sheet as the first cover page.)

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36 minutes ago, Oufti said:

(BTW, your file misses a last cover page, which for example will be printed on the same side of a sheet as the first cover page.)

Actually the pages in a folded booklet need to be a multiple of four, so this booklet needs another three pages, to make a total of sixteen. (eg: A single sheet of paper will have two pages on one side and two on the other, making a total of four pages printed on each sheet.)

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8 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

Actually the pages in a folded booklet need to be a multiple of four, so this booklet needs another three pages, to make a total of sixteen. […]

Thank you. I thought about it and then forgot it when writing… 😯

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Thank you very much for taking the time to help Oufti and PaulEC!

I was able to turn pages upside down following your helpful advice and have successfully printed a full-color multi-page mockup! Here are some additional steps that helped me to arrange everything properly to print:

First, I made a model of the booklet in the size I wanted (a mini notepad size) by taking 8 blank sheets of printer paper and trimmed them to 90mm x 254mm (3.5 inches x 10 inches). I folded the sheets in half then stapled them in the center to make a blank booklet 90mm x 127 mm (3.5 x 5 inches). I flipped through each page and with a marker, wrote what should be each page. Then, I removed the staples from this model booklet, unfolded each sheet and laid out the Publisher 2 pages in the same order, noticing that I had to turn text and images on some of the pages upside down. Once the layout was complete, I exported as a PDF, set my laser printer to print on both sides, scaled to 100%, then printed everything, trimmed the sheets to size, folded and stapled, and Voila! A nice color mock-up. I also rounded the corners to complete the look. I'm sure there is an easier way, but in the end, it came out great, and I'm thrilled.

Thank you again for your help!

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