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Create booklet adobe4/29/2023 ![]() This might be OK for a small book, but we want 2 signatures with 2 sheets each. The default settings look like this:Īs you can see, it wants to print all the pages in the book as a single booklet. Select the “Booklet Printing” option from the section “Page Handling”. For some reason, Acrobat’s print menu doesn’t have zoom settings for the booklet option. Method 1: Booklet FROM AdoBe Acrobat’s Print Menu This method only works if pages are the size you want or larger. In most cases you’d want 4-8 sheets per signature. This is the minimum to demonstrate the method. I made the sample book 16 pages so that I could make 2 signatures of 2 sheets (4 book pages) each. These are all basic settings and likely come with all software that opens PDFs. I am using an older version of Acrobat and Windows 7 so there may be some variation from your menus’ appearance. The borders are just there to give a sense of proportion to the page and loosely represent a text block. The borders are inset from the actual page edge as you can see below. Note that the page size for each page is 4.25”x5.5”. This is just like 99%+ of all the PDF books you’ve opened. I’m showing it in 2-up continuous mode so you can see the order of the pages. This is a sample book PDF that I made to illustrate the process. ![]() I had the inclination to see if I could finagle what I needed out of the software options already included with the PDF reader and printer. It seems that many choose to use custom software, often that costs money, to do this. This requires the pages to be arranged in specific order and printed on both side of a sheet. It needs to be made with multiple signatures sewn together into a text block. The book is a small format but 200+ pages. I’ve also fallen slightly into the bookbinding hobby (read hole) and look for little practice projects. This is the first method in a multi-part series. Sometimes it’s fine to peruse a book on the computer, but if you are using as an active reference a hard copy is the way to go. I wanted to print a public domain book to read and refer to later.
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