Pages have got to be a multiple of 4 So you have a working sequence of double page spreads including front and back cover.
Binding:
Saddle stitch binding
Perfect bind. Single sheets of paper. With that method it's just a multiple of 2, 2 pages per sheet of paper.
More complex books will be made up of sections, so it's like loads of little booklets hard bound with a hard outer cover.
This A4 size booklet would end up having A3 size spreads, including bleed, slug and registration it probably won't fit on an A3 so you'll need bigger paper + crop.
Alternatively, you can have smaller than A4 pages, to accomodate bleed etc and still fit on an A3
READER SPREAD: Exactly how it will look when printed and bound. How it will look when someone's reading the book.
When printed, the pages are printed on separate sheets of paper. For example page 2 and page 7 will be next to each other. Once put together in a saddle stitch or staple stitch. It will all make sense.
So when printing you need to make sure you do print layouts
HOW DO YOU DO THIS?
You can do a mock-up of the booklet and note down the page order you'll need to work with. However with a large publication, it can be a bit of a headache.
Or a pen and piece of paper - Draw a very simple table with two columns.
With spreads we're working with right hand and left hand pages - recto and verso.
L | R
8 | 1
2 | 7
6 | 3
4 | 5
Keep doing that till you get to half the number of pages, and then just make your way back up and there you go.
You can then split them up into groups of 4, so you know 8/1 have 2/7 on the back.
Also each DPS should add up to ONE MORE than the total pages in the book. In this case I'd have 8 pages. For example
8+1 = 9.
6+3 = 9.
4+5 = 9.
MASTER PAGES
What do the A's in the corner mean? Every inDesign doc has ONE master page. There's a Spread, left and right page. That's called the A-Master. And a single page above called None.
When setting up an ID doc, every single page is based upon the master page. Blank template for that document. Use master page to add content that you want to appear on every single page of your document, that is based on that master page.
FOR EXAMPLE: I could be layout a magazine. b, each section would be based on a different master page. Each section would have it's own master page.
These would be working with B-Masters, C-Masters, D-Masters etc.
Double click on your master page to edit your master page.
You can see here the master page spread with a circle on the L and R page is applied to all pages. Each object is also locked on the document pages, they're locked you can't move them. This is for consistency within your document, you can't move it by accident or anything like that.
For example you could add a text frame to the master in order to have a text frame on each left/right/both pages consistently.
These are locked though!
To unlock and edit them, CMD+SHIFT+CLICK
Creating a new master page...
To apply a master, drag and drop the master page over a page layout.
It replaces everything apart from the unlocked text box. When unlocked a text box, you kind of break the link between the text box and the master.
You can also apply a master of NONE to pages, just drag and drop the none master onto the pages.
A very useful thing to put on the master page, is PAGE NUMBERING
Go into the master page, add a text box and insert a special character
It will say A as this is the A master, and these page number markers will only apply to A pages. So you could have different pages numbered with different slide masters.
If you don't want a number on your front cover, usually the first page is the first inside page (page 3)
Go file>New document
To print a booklet, DO NOT go print. GO onto PRINK BOOKLET... to reorder the pages according to the type of book you are going to create, the type of binding you are going to use.
2 UP, is 2 sheets per side of paper, saddle stitched
Consecutive is good if you are doing 3 fold leaflets for example, you could have set up your indesign with 3 pages next to each other, one for each panel of your booklet.
Once that's checked go to Print Settings at the bottom
When working with a PRINT BOOKLET you don't get a preview in the corner, so that's a good check.
Make sure PRINT BLANK PAGES IS CHECKED. Very often you'll have blank pages in your book, for example a blank page on your inside cover. Always just check them so it doesn't just make a mess of everything.
Make sure your page position to be centred, so for double sided printing, it will be centred and trim nicely.
You can also add crop marks, in marks and bleed.
Once you're happy with this, go to the PRINTER.. option
In the preview option in the print booklet window you can see how Indesign will reorder the pages to accomodate the binding method
You can also see the warning in the corner. It says it won't fit the paper size, this is because of the bleed value. So ideally I'd print this on an A2 piece of paper and perfectly trim and crop the centred spread on both sides.
Sometimes you may have to add or remove pages in order to be a multiple of 4 and be reordered correctly to bind.
This booklet would be two sheets of A3, folded and stapled or sewn together. Each sheet of paper has 2 spreads on each side. 4 pages each.
SECTIONING
If you have a large document, for example a 64 page document would have 16 sheets of paper (64x4. Would be too much sheets of paper to just fold and staple together.
That would be printed out and made into sections, probably 2.
With 80gsm paper, you can probably get about 8 sheets of paper per section
For 64 pages, Page 1-32 would be 8 sheets of paper - 1 booklet. Pages 33- 64, booklet 2. Do this with the page range in the print output process.
Laser printers are the only printers that can print automatically double sided, and automatically feed back in.
How can we double side print ourselves? For example in the digital print resource.?
Creating PDF Files.
Print booklet function doesn't work in Digital Print, but can use this to make a PDF with Printer spreads. Makes it very easy to take and print elsewhere.
Could even take to a commercial printer if you want to take control of the printer spreads.
In PRINTER: In Print Booklet, check out PostScript File. Postscript is the language that our laser printers and some other printers will use to print documents. PostScript language.
PostScript Fonts. All of the fonts we use now are called OpenType Fonts, new font format. Before there was PostScript & TrueType fonts. The differences are a truetype font is a photoshop bitmap, Postscript font is a bit like an AI vector. Check this out more, for type too.
PPD Stands for PostScript Printer Description
So incase of a piece of paper with the PPD option, we get a file.
It will allow us to create this PostScript file up to any size and not just be limited to the printers limitations. Go see Mike if you want this PDF file for the PPD for your own Indesign.
Differences in page sizes available with PDF PPD and Printer PPD
Making sure PRINT BLANK PAGES and PAGE POSITION IS CENTRED, check out this Preview
The Postscript file contains all images, fonts, doesn't need any of the linked information
Here it is in preview, all the page reordering and content applying has taken place.
All I have to do now is take this to James in Print and do a simple Front/Back/Front/Back print. Feed the paper back in myself to print on the back.
To actually make the .ps into a PDF file, there's another piece of software in Adobe Acrobat X Folder. Acrobat Pro can seperate PDF's into processes and spot colour and know about the inks and separations.
ACROBAT DISTILLER
Turning Postscript files into PDF files ready for print.
At the top you have your PDF settings, e.g. Press quality, smallest file size. Press quality is ready to print.
As soon as I drop in the .ps file it's immediately processed, obviously with a larger document it might take a little longer
Outputting your own SEPARATIONS
Outputting positives in the digital print resource, the PostScript file again allows me to do that.
Same thing, Print booklet, make sure you use a PostScript File and PPD Adobe PDF.
Change Output to Separations
Printing a Cyan Separation onto Postscript, and later onto PDF through Distiller...
Positives are always in greyscale, from each one you'd make one screen and then just apply the colour through.
I want to try this separations process with a photo or a piece of my work
*When using Distiller, it puts the PDF File in the same folder as the PostScript file
Creating a PDF for online using, this would be an instance where you use 'smallest file size' no point using press quality PDF for uploading to the internet or posting to your blog. Will look great on a computer screen and won't take up too much space.
Exporting pages of layout as JPG's
You won't get any trim marks. So make your own trim marks, And increase the bleed to something way more than you need to like 20mm, so in effect you have a slug, which is room for registration marks and other print process information and you have your crop marks too. Makes much more sense for when blogging.
Before posting onto your blog. You have all your pages saved as separate jpeg's. It;s too big for your blog, you're restricted for space on your blog. It will take up too much space on your megabyte allocation.
You're only worried about pixels really, so you can resize in Photoshop, so you have a full size un-shrinked representation of an A4 size document.
Jpeg's not suitable for printing or sending off for commercial print but useful for your studies and for blogging.
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