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Does anyone know a way to print two pages side by side?
I'm working on a paperback book 5.25 x 8 and it would be so much more efficient to print two facing pages at a time in "reader spreads" at 100% size as they will appear in the book.
Any suggestions?
Doesn't Adobe Reader or Acrobat fill the need? Either can print a pdf made from single pages as a booklet. Need to proper amount of pages for the booklet order to work out properly.
I think print from Adobe reader as booklet will print the pages for stitching
I sugesst you try the multiple setting instead, eg:
Attachment 132581
which will follow through as it prints with this:
Attachment 132582
etc
so you get your pages side by side as you would read
if you have a front page then that would be page 'two' in this example, so page 'one' would be blank - if you are omitting a front page then it is a straight run...
EDIT - btw there is a multiple fit print option in xara but as I recall, that is for printing multiple instances of the same page layout per page of print, which is not the same thing....
What I am trying to do is to print reader spreads for proofreading the material before publishing. So booklet just print side-by-side but not in readable form. Booklet is intended for folding, cuttings and binding. It's imposition. Something more like the attached.
I came close yesterday printing from Xara but the side-by-side pages are about 80% actual size and make it harder to proofread.
I'm going to play around with the settings some more today as soon as my brain is in gear.
Mike, long time no see.
ah sorry, misunderstood - I am pretty sure acrobat will do that if not reader as mike said; but not something I have experience of directly
OK Acrobat it is. [ X ] Multiple [ X ] 2 by 1
prints two pages on one sheet, side-by-side at almost 100%. Close enough.
Gary,
What I do is in Xara under the print window I select options and under the layout tab I select Multiple fit and rows=1 Columns=2
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select ok
Under the print window select printer and change to landscape then print your document.
Ray
Thanks Ray, I'll give that a try.
Ray, when I try these settings it prints the same page twice on the sheet. What am I missing here?
Acrobat did the job but even with the Save Ink/Toner option it was very very slow.
Gary,
I forgot that Xara does not treat this as two separate pages.
I retested and under the options I used automatic fit. The way I got this to work was from the print widow I selected printer and under the printer properties I can select multi page and then I selected 2-UP. You would have to check if your printer has this as one of its properties.
Ray
To do a fold/cut booklet, you would need an imposition application. There are many/several available, but for the size needed, the free version of what I use may suffice:Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
https://www.montax-imposer.com
If ya don't like figuring out new applications, then take a pass. There may be enough overlap with the free and Pro versions I might be able to help, though. As well, you have my email address, I cold always do the imposition and return an imposed pdf.
Mike
p.s., I'm here every day (usually). Just lurking is all.
Gary, I am with you on this.Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
My first approach would be to fit 2 pages per sheet in your PDF viewer.
Just for Proofing
If using just Xara, I would create a double width page, fit a text area to it and change to 2-columns with automatic page creation.
This allows you to tweak inner and outer guttering as well as individual page layout.
Page numbering is still the Xara failing in DTP.
Acorn
See post https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...975#post649975Quote:
My first approach would be to fit 2 pages per sheet in your PDF viewer.
I used Acrobat and printed the book in two page spreads which is exactly what I wanted for proofreading and seeing the spreads side-by-side.
Let's say you want to an imposed pdf without any costly software. Your pages are Letter/A4 Portrait, and your printer supports only Letter/A4. Select a printer driver that supports Tabloid/A3 (e.g. Generic Color PS for Commercial Printing printer driver distributed with MS Publisher), select landscape and print two pages side-by-side to a PS file, and distill it using Adobe or some other (e.g. Ghostscript) distiller. The result is an imposed PDF with the right dimensions that you can even print to your Letter/A4 type printer (using Fit to paper).
Doesn't anybody read?Quote:
Let's say you want to an imposed pdf without any costly software
All I wanted was two facing pages on each sheet of paper. I am not printing a brochure or a booklet. I just need to generate reader's proofs for a book I am working on.
I solved the issue and was able to accomplish this via the new Acrobat Reader DC or my older version of Acrobat.
@Gary and @others
I felt peculiar that side-by-side printing seems so off within Xara, where it proclaims it is a DTP solution.
Xara comes with an A4 double page spread Template. It can be described as two bits of paper taped together with no mention of crayons or pens. It is next to useless.
Here is an alternative:
- Open the A4 1-Column Template.
- In Options > Page Size:
- Paper: tick Double-page.
- Page: untick Show page shadow.
- Clone the bottom bar.
- Drag to the right-hand page and position as the first.
- Set to repeat on all pages.
- Select the right-hand bottom bar:
- Insert > Page number - Centred / First page is 1.
- On the left-hand page, delete the original '-1-'.
- File > Save Template:
- Pick A4 double page spread Template.
All this does not meet Gary's need of printing out his pages side-by-side.
What you get is a Preview of side-by-side.
If you think setting Web Properties > Export > Viewer options > PDF download will work then the PDF created is single A4 pages all the way down.
In some ways, it is better as you can see the side-by-side layout clearly if you have a reasonable monitor; I have a 2560px wide one so side-by-side A4 is well met.
Here is my Template: Attachment 132589
To get the side-by-side printing working, these are the needed steps:
- Options > Page > Print/export: Whole page.
- Where you have an A3 printer, File > Print > Printer:
- Click the Printer button:
- Paper: pick A3 & Landscape.
- Xara's PDF download now works as well.
If you have this there is no need to print as PDF, you have Preview and Print download built-in.
Do note this Thread is about printing out Xara pages as PDF locally, not what a commercial printer-setter might do or use.
Discussion needs to meet the KISS principle.
Acorn