Help setting up a booklet

[Wendy]

I have tried doing this myself and have had no luck. I read the article about
creating a book but not much help. I thought if I describe what I needed,
someone could help me step by step. So here it goes...
I am creating a (roughly) 15 page booklet which I will e-mail to my printers
in a PDF format. The pages will be 4.25" by 5.5". I would like to have 4
pages on one 8.5" by 11" sheet of paper, so my printer can simply slice them
all in half and arrange them to be folded and stapled. So the layout on 1
piece of paper should be for example: page 4 and 1 on the top half, then 2
and 3 on the bottom.
My problem is that when I send the file to PDF or use print preview I see:
on one page, 4 and 1 on the top, then 4 and 1 again. It seems it is doing 2
copies on one page, when want all 4 pages of the book to print on one page
only.
I hope this makes sense to someone and any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Wendy

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Are you using Pub 2007's add-in to create your pdf file or something else?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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[Mary Sauer]

How many booklets will you be publishing? What you are trying to do requires
your having a custom size stock. Publisher will want to print two identical
documents using the page setup you require.

 

[Wendy]

Well I will be printing 1000 books but I need to send one final copy to the
printers. I have Publisher 2003 and I use adobe PDF maker to convert the file
to PDF.
Regarding my page setup, lets pretend I am making a eight page book. I would
like to print only one 8.5x11 sheet of paper (both sides), cut that in half
and then fold and assemble the book. So the pages should be arranged in print
preview as follows: page 1,8, page 2,7, page 3,6, page 4,5.
Publisher however is making copies of the pages on one 8.5x11 sheet. (I knew
this would be hard to describe) I thought it might have to do with the paper
size and that it is not allowing me to have 4 pages per sheet of paper.
Will I have to not use the booklet page setup and just use a normal page,
then divide it up accordingly and arrange the pages myself?
Thanks

 

[Mary Sauer]

I understand your setup. The problem is you want to print a mini-booklet.
Publisher will print your setup in the correct order, but will print two copies
per sheet. Publisher prints as though you are using letter stock. This should be
okay for your printer to handle if you explain to him/her what you want.

 

[Wendy]

Yes, but is there not a way to change the 2 copies per sheet?

 

[highhopes]

Hi. I know you'd like to do 4 different pages per sheet, but maybe you could
do it this way.

What if you had pages 1 and 4 print on one sheet, but two times, as you have
now.
Then the next page would do pages 2 and 3, two times.
Print them one page on back of the other. Now you have two copies of your
book.

I'm trying to do something similar. How did you set up your original
document?

 

[Jim A]

Wendy,
After reading your problem I open Publisher 2003 and made a 'pretent'
booklet it previewed fine. What I did is opened a blank 8.5x11 document. Used
the arrangement settings to divide it into four equal parts. Then created
copy blocks for each page. I put pages 1 and 4 at the top and pgs. 2 and 3
on the bottom. the trick came in when I saw to make it back up right pages 1
and 4 needed to be upside down. I turned these and preview fine.

I hope this is a help

Jim A
working with Publisher since Publisher 97