DHust Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 ‘Booklet’ mode always treats the entire document as one signature. For four-page (i.e. single-sheet) signatures, choose ‘Book’ mode. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 16.7.2 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltop Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Is there a setting to print 8-page (or 12, 16 etc.) signatures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 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. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 16.7.2 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 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. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHust Posted August 11, 2019 Author Share Posted August 11, 2019 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHust Posted August 11, 2019 Author Share Posted August 11, 2019 4 minutes ago, thomaso said: Kind of: You select the range of page numbers. That doesn't work for booklets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Books. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHust Posted August 11, 2019 Author Share Posted August 11, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Signatures are not supported. If you are making your own book, I suggest buying imposition software. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHust Posted August 11, 2019 Author Share Posted August 11, 2019 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 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. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LokiLove Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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