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I want to print pages of a doucment but here's the problem, I want the pages to appear in a book-like fashion . for example I want a piece of A4 paper folded to create it. Please helppp

any answers ... im desperate

im using windows xp

Answer 1

it depends on a few factors. like what type of printer you have. mine actually has the option to do this. if you have a pc (not a mac i don't know how to run those) i your document program (like microsoft word) you go to "file" and "print..." it should open the printer window. choose the "properties" button look around in there to see if you're printer has any options to automatically do that for you. if not there, find the "advanced" button or tab and look around in there. if this doesn't help, you'll have to change the set up and layout of the pages of your document. go to "file" "page set up..." in there should be the option for "landscape" printing. choose it. next you'll have to make your document pages have two columns. select all of the text on the page, (in word) choose "format" "columns..." and choose to have two. now, the next part will be trickier. you'll have to arrange your pages manually so that the correct ones will print in the correct places. like the first column on the first page will be the first page of your book, but the second column on the first page will be the last page of your book.

i'm sorry this isn't more specific, but without knowing whether you're using a mac or a pc and what software you are using, i can only help you with the one i use most (ms word). i hope this helps some : )

Answer 2

That's a function of your software and printer driver. If it's not an available option, then you need to do it yourself. Make yourself a dummy by folding paper (enough sheets to make the right amount of pages - e.g. 2 sheets for an 8-page booklet) in half together like a book. Then number the pages, starting with 1 on the cover and so on. No unfold the pages and take them apart. The first page of your document should contain Page 1 (cover) on the right side of the page and (for the example of an 8-page book) Page 8 on the left. Then the second page has Page 7 on the right and Page 2 on the left. Continue on this way, using your dummy for reference to create the document. Then, print it two-sided, stack the pages in the proper order and fold it in half.

Answer 3

A dedicated page layout application like Adobe's InDesign or Pagemaker, as well as QuarkXPress automates many of the functions you describe, making it, relatively, easy to do this.

With a little bit of thought, you can also do this in Word or most other graphics programs.

You begin by creating a "dummy." That is, you fold a series of papers, containing as many pages as your booklet requires. After you have folded and nested the pages, label and/or number each page. (front cover, inside front cover, back cover, inside back cover, table of contents, page one, two, three, etc.

After the completed dummy has been labled, take it apart and unfold the pages. Each piece of paper is a "mock up" of the way you will layout and print each sheet.

For example, the outside covers will be laid out on one side of the same sheet, with the front cover on the RIGHT side and the back cover on the left. When folded, as in a booklet, you will see the front cover properly placed and the back cover, as well. On the other side of the same sheet, you would layout the inside front cover on the left half of the sheet, and the inside back cover on the right.

Layout the rest of the booklet in a similar fashion, using the dummy as a guide for which "page" is laid out on which sheet, and where.

I do booklets, brochures and catalogues all the time, and, after many years of doing this, I STILL construct a crude dummy for each and every project. Without one, it is EASY to mess up the "pagination."