Printing two pages side-by-side

[gwpriester]

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?

[mwenz]

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.

[handrawn]

I think print from Adobe reader as booklet will print the pages for stitching

I sugesst you try the multiple setting instead, eg:



which will follow through as it prints with this:



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....

[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.

[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