Printing two pages side-by-side

[gwpriester]

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.

[handrawn]

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

[gwpriester]

OK Acrobat it is. [ X ] Multiple [ X ] 2 by 1

prints two pages on one sheet, side-by-side at almost 100%. Close enough.

[RKissane]

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



select ok

Under the print window select printer and change to landscape then print your document.

Ray

[gwpriester]

Thanks Ray, I'll give that a try.

[gwpriester]

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.

[RKissane]

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

[mwenz]

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.

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:

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.

[Acorn]

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 am with you on this.

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

[gwpriester]

My first approach would be to fit 2 pages per sheet in your PDF viewer.

See post https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...975#post649975

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.