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From: D.M. Procida on 9 Jun 2010 17:30
I am sure I have asked this before...

Is there some convenient way to create a booklet of A5 pages, preferably
in Pages, that can be sent straight to an A4 printer for double-sided
printing so that the pages appear in all the right places?

Daniele
From: Andy Hewitt on 9 Jun 2010 18:02
Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote:

> In article
> <1jjubrb.1htacf9csfy23N%real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk>,
> real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote:
>
> > I am sure I have asked this before...
> >
> > Is there some convenient way to create a booklet of A5 pages, preferably
> > in Pages, that can be sent straight to an A4 printer for double-sided
> > printing so that the pages appear in all the right places?
>
> I was using CocoaBooklet, but hmmmm mumble mumble that appears to be
> entirely broken under Snow Leopard.


I use this. Works well enough.

<http://web.mac.com/vogelbusch/Site/Programs/Eintr�ge/2009/7/22_Create_B
ooklet_1.1_support_Snow_Leopard.html>


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Andy Hewitt
<http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Woody on 9 Jun 2010 18:04
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:

> I am sure I have asked this before...
>
> Is there some convenient way to create a booklet of A5 pages, preferably
> in Pages, that can be sent straight to an A4 printer for double-sided
> printing so that the pages appear in all the right places?

Can you not do it as a4 pages, reduced to 50% and done as 2 per a4 page?

Although if I do an a5 page layout here, and then just type multiple
pages, I can select 2 pages per sheet on the layout tab of the print
dialog, and it puts 2 a5 portaits on a a4 landscape.

If I print that is how it comes out.




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Woody

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From: Andy Hewitt on 9 Jun 2010 18:11
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I am sure I have asked this before...
> >
> > Is there some convenient way to create a booklet of A5 pages, preferably
> > in Pages, that can be sent straight to an A4 printer for double-sided
> > printing so that the pages appear in all the right places?
>
> Can you not do it as a4 pages, reduced to 50% and done as 2 per a4 page?
>
> Although if I do an a5 page layout here, and then just type multiple
> pages, I can select 2 pages per sheet on the layout tab of the print
> dialog, and it puts 2 a5 portaits on a a4 landscape.
>
> If I print that is how it comes out.

How does that handle page ordering for a booklet printed duplex on A4
sheets and folded? When I last tried it, it didn't work, hence the need
for CocoaBooklet - and now PDF Create Booklet (see my other reply).

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Andy Hewitt
<http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Dr Geoff Hone on 9 Jun 2010 18:12
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 22:30:01 +0100,
real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote:

>I am sure I have asked this before...
>
>Is there some convenient way to create a booklet of A5 pages, preferably
>in Pages, that can be sent straight to an A4 printer for double-sided
>printing so that the pages appear in all the right places?
>
>Daniele

The way I've done this in the past is to set the page layout to
Landscape mode, two columns (adjust the margins to get the appearance
that you want.
Using a four-page, single fold as an example:
For the first side the L column is P4 and the R column is P2
For side two, L column is P2 and the R column is P3.

Take a sheet of A4, place horizontally fold in half vertically, and
start numbering in pencil. For more than 4-page booklets, fold two or
three sheets together and start numbering.

Used this approach with A3 to produce A4 4-page short course
brochures. You may have to adjust the page numbers/layout to suit
your particular double-sided printer, but it is no harder to print
using a single-sided printer and reload the sheets manually.
Geoff
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