Print only some pages of a booklet

[DHust]

I'm trying to print 4-page signatures and then put them together in a textblock/booklet. I have about 180 pages to print so I need to only print a few at a time so that when I fold them it's not all messed up because I'm folding too many. Is there a way to only print 4 pages at a time in booklet mode? I've tried changing the range to print 1-4 but it still prints the second and second-to-last pages together. So it's basically determining the spread based off of the fact that I chose booklet and then after that it takes into consideration the pages I want to print. It needs to be the other way around for what I would like to do. Ideas?

[Alfred]

‘Booklet’ mode always treats the entire document as one signature. For four-page (i.e. single-sheet) signatures, choose ‘Book’ mode.

[Hilltop]

Is there a setting to print 8-page (or 12, 16 etc.) signatures?

[Alfred]

4 hours ago, Hilltop said:

Is there a setting to print 8-page (or 12, 16 etc.) signatures?

Not as far as I’m aware.

[thomaso]

4 hours ago, Hilltop said:

Is there a setting to print 8-page (or 12, 16 etc.) signatures?

Kind of: You select the range of page numbers.

[DHust]

I think I misspoke when I said 4-page signature. What I meant was 4 pieces of paper which, I think, ends up being a 16-page signature. Unfortunately, book mode does not put them in the correct order. Any other ideas? 

[DHust]

4 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Kind of: You select the range of page numbers.

That doesn't work for booklets.

[thomaso]

Books.

[DHust]

Let's retry this. Anyone know how to print a 16-page signature from a range of pages? I need to print about 10 of these 16-page signatures and then put them all together to make a book.

[MikeW]

Signatures are not supported.

If you are making your own book, I suggest buying imposition software.

Mike 

[DHust]

Bummer. Thanks for the info. That's what I bought this program for. Guess I need to get a refund so I can buy Bookletcreator.

Edited August 11, 2019 by DHust

[walt.farrell]

It can be done with Publisher (at least on Windows), but as MikeW mentioned printing signatures is not a function that is supported natively. So doing it is somewhat painful, and involves manual specification of the page order. This would be better done with imposition software, as he mentioned.

For example, I just created a 16-page project and printed a 16-page signature manually. My printer will handle double-sided printing, and I told Publisher to print it N-up with 2-across and 1-down, and selected the pages to print as 16, 1, 2, 15, 14, 3, 4, 13, 12, 5, 6, 11, 10, 7, 8, and 9. That worked just fine.

If I had a 32-page book, and wanted the next signature, I'm guessing that I could add 16 to everything, and ask Publisher to print pages 32, 17, 18, 31, 30, 19, 20, 29, 28, 21, 22, 27, 26, 23, 24, and 25.

[LokiLove]

On Youtube there is a guy who has a good tutorial on how to do it. 

Title: How to Print Sections or Signatures from a PDF File for Bookbinding // Adventures in Bookbinding 

Channel: DAS bookbinding 

Summary:  Basically you need to make each signature a new document, and then print each of these documents as a booklet. 

 

Probably don't even need affinity for this one.  Honestly, it's annoying that publisher doesn't have this, seems like something that is relatively easy to implement and makes sense for a publishing software to be able to print the signatures out and make a book.

 

Cheers!