Creating a book/booklet
- how you bind your book will have a consequence on the number of pages
- perfect binding is for single sheets of paper e.g. ring binding or gluing
- a simple booklet will be bound using a saddle stitch
- for saddle stitch, the booklet needs to be in multiples of four
Simple 8 page book
- two sheets of paper, printed on both side, folded and bound
- type of spreads that we see on screen are referred to as reader's spreads - pages appear on screen exactly how they will be when printed, trimmed and bound
- printer's spreads are how the pages will be arranged on the sheets of paper that are then put together and made into the book
- need to understand how our pages will be re-ordered from our reader's spreads to our printer's spreads BUT InDesign will do this for you
- aslong as you tell InDesign the type of binding, it will re-order the pages itself
- to try and understand how it will be put together, you could make a mock-up (if it is a small number of pages)
- for a book with a large number of pages, all you need is a piece of paper and a pen...
1. to calculate print spreads create a two column table, left and right
2. fill the column with the number of pages in the book by zig zagging down the numbers (page 1 will always be in the right hand column)
3. when half way through, work your way back up
- you can use master pages to include page numbers on each page
- create a type box > type menu > insert special character > markers > current page number
- this will then appear on all of your pages
- as we're working with facing pages, you can make a copy of the page number onto the right hand page by pressing the alt key and dragging the text box onto the other side
- if you don't want a page number on your first page, you can change this when you are creating your new document
- there is an option to choose where the page numbering starts
- this can also be changed using the 'number and section options' window on the pages menu
- once we have all of our content on our pages, it needs to be printed
- file menu > print booklet
- have to tell InDesign the booklet type
- choose 2-up saddle stitch
- click print settings, sends you to default InDesign print dialog box
- lack of preview immediately tells you that you're printing a booklet
- ALWAYS check print blank pages as it is highly likely your book will include some
- setup > paper size
- if you have bleed, you can't print two A4s onto an A3, will have to go on an A2 to make room for bleed and trim marks
- page positioning, will always utilise double sided printing, in order for the prints to line up you always need to centre your content in the middle of the sheets of paper
- set page position to 'centred'
- marks and bleed, option for crop marks
- to print, click 'printer...' this will open the standard print dialog box
- the double sided print setting will be in 'layout' on the drop down menu > two-sided > short-edge binding
Postscript
- on the general print menu
- postscript file = the language that your digital file is converted to when you go to print (programming language)
- may also have came across this as a type of font, open type font
- post script fonts and true type fonts
- very much like a PDF file
- change PPD (postscript printer description) to Adobe PDF 9.0, this will allow you to create a postscript file of any size, all the way up to A0
- choose A2, and change page position to 'centred'
- place some crop marks as it is an A3 in the middle of an A2
- when you click print, you will get a file created on the computer
- everything will be embedded in this file
- once this is done, you don't need to worry about linked files
- preview then converts the postscript file into a temporary PDF file
- you can then take this to the digital print resource and do a very simple front-back, double-sided print
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