Imposition of pages

[Old Bruce]

The little triangles on the corners represent the top Right of each page, Herojas 93 just has the numbers upside down on some of the pages.

[Eric Jervis]

I once produced a book using PageMaker, which had a very useful command; Build booklet.  One click and it imposed all the pages correctly.  Another useful command was: Save for service provider, which assembled all that was needed into one file, to hand on a floppy disc to the bloke who produced the negatives from which the plates were produced.

[tmarq]

On 9/21/2018 at 10:52 AM, mac_heibu said:

You can impose during print output (and create a PDF from there, if you are on a Mac):

Working like a charm! Thanks for the tip ;)

[fde101]

On 9/21/2018 at 8:34 AM, Fixx said:

I guess I do not know which parts are app supplied and which are driver features

In the standard Mac print dialog, the popup that lets you choose which set of options is displayed is divided into three or more parts by separator lines: the part containing "Layout", "Color Matching", etc. is provided by the OS; any parts above that are provided by the application, and any parts below it are provided by the printer driver.

[Tony Ennis]

On 9/21/2018 at 5:52 AM, mac_heibu said:

You can impose during print output (and create a PDF from there, if you are on a Mac):

I did this, and was rewarded with a single 300 page signature 😄

[fde101]

On 4/4/2021 at 12:07 PM, Tony Ennis said:

I did this, and was rewarded with a single 300 page signature 😄

Are you sure you set the Model to "Book" and not "Booklet"?

 

Single = no imposition (print in layout order)

Booklet = 1 signature with all pages

Book = All pages arranged into single-sheet signatures

[wonderings]

That is hardly an imposition that the OP was asking for. Now that was years ago hopefully a solution was found as there are plenty out there. If you are need imposition for offset and digital I recommend Imposition Studio Pro. It is PDF based and handles everything I throw at it. 

[loukash]

On 2/28/2019 at 4:28 AM, fde101 said:

the standard Mac print dialog

I just noticed that Save As PDF via Print dialog will keep CMYK values intact.
So if you need quick'n'dirty imposition with bleed and marks of, say, A4 pages:

1. create a custom paper size like DIN B3 (can be done in any Mac app which is highly recommended if you want to avoid APu crash)
2. select it as paper size in Print dialog
3. select Booklet
4. enable Bleed & Marks
5. PDF popup menu > Save as PDF
6. pray that Publisher doesn't crash before the export is finished

[Tony Ennis]

2 hours ago, loukash said:

 

1. pray that Publisher doesn't crash before the export is finished

Periodically copy your publisher files to dropbox, or something similar, too.

[wonderings]

Most likely if you are sending to a printer that will fold and saddle stitch a book for you it will have this basic imposition in it so you would send single pages and select that option where it would do the rest. If you are sending your file to a print shop there is no need for you to impose.