special fold booklet

[Stella]

I layout my book in A4, it gets printed on A0. Can I still layout from page
1,2,3,4 etc up to page 60 or do I need to adjust the pages while layouting?

I read there is a function in Publisher File, Page setup, Special fold which
might answer my question, but I cannot find "special fold" in Publisher 2003.

 

[pdan]

I layout my book in A4, it gets printed on A0. Can I still layout from page
1,2,3,4 etc up to page 60 or do I need to adjust the pages while
layouting?

I read there is a function in Publisher File, Page setup, Special fold
which
might answer my question, but I cannot find "special fold" in Publisher
2003.

Adjusting for creep, and imposing, need to be handled by the facility doing
your printing; unless instructed to, you would certainly muck things up.
See the thread "Preparing Punisher Files for Printing" started early this
month in this group.

 

[Mary Sauer]

The special fold was a Publisher 2000 and below feature in Publisher. Now it is
simply booklet in page setup. If your printer's default is A4, your booklet will
be setup with A5 pages, landscaped (two pages per sheet).
If you want your booklet to have two A4 pages per sheet, select booklet, in the
printer setup select A3 landscape.

 

[Stella]

Thanks Mary,
as you say my printer at home does only up to A4 but the commercial printer
will do up to A0. will the printer be able to change the setting if the
layout is done in A4 landscape?

 

[Mary Sauer]

I don't know much about prepress. I do know you can create a custom size in
Acrobat before you create your publication.

 

[Mike Koewler]

Stella,

Why don't you ask the printer?

<RANT> Why do people post here (and in other NGs) asking what a printer
can or cannot do instead up picking up the phone or sending the printer
an e-mail? It's not like printers are beasts that are waiting to lash
out at possible customers. I've been working them for more than 20 years
and never once has one got mad because I offered to submit a test file
to make sure it will work when I send the real one. Printer don't cringe
when the get a Pub file, they cringe when they get a Pub file from an
idiot designer. (For the record, there are idiot designers who use
PagePlus, Quark, InDesign, PageMaker and just about any other program.
The difference is someone is not likely to spend several hundred dollars
on a program without knowing they need it and are willing to learn to
use it).
</RANT>

Mike

 

[Odysseus]

(For the record, there are idiot designers who use PagePlus, Quark,
InDesign, PageMaker and just about any other program.

Absolutely ... although their 'usage' is often more like abuse ... at
any rate, IME the more advanced features an app has, the more potential
there is for creating an unprintable mess with it.

The difference is someone is not likely to spend several hundred
dollars on a program without knowing they need it and are willing to
learn to use it).

Nobody with a lick of common sense would ... but weren't we talking
about idiot designers?