Perhaps you printed covers separately (maybe the cover is color, on different paper, or whatever). Now you have 1 or more copies of this thing printed out. After you have assembled it, write PROOF on it somewhere obvious, so it does not create confusion later. Print one copy out on cheap paper, and assemble it, before you go ahead and print out 100 copies on expensive paper. So now you have a PDF file with a bunch of stuff that can simply be printed two-sided, flip-on-short-side, and hopefully the pages will simply fold and nest into a zine. I use BookletCreator, and because I use the somewhat limited free version, I jump through extra hoops, but it works fine. This stuff is not rocket science, but nobody seems to have bothered to simply write a good tool that just does it, other than this one.įourth, the Adobe tools know how to do this too, in the print/output dialogs you select Booklet and, um, follow along I guess. It can also handle multiple quires, and I think it can handle quarto style and so on. The third and easiest, I think, is a tool called BookletCreator which consumes a PDF file, and produces a re-ordered PDF file. My Windows laptop flips out if I try to print pages out of order, but your equipment may differ. The second is to calculate the right ordering for the pages, and put these page numbers into the Print dialog of a suitably capable printer interface. The first is to lay your book out in the right order in the first place, which is crazy, and fairly hard. Visualize folding this thing, and then inserting other folded pages into it, as if you were a filing clerk. The blank page you see first is actually the last page of the book, and the picture of the toy cowboy is second to last. The title page is the first page, and the colophon page (on the other side of the sheet) is second. Here is the first content sheet of REACT. Folded in half, this will make the outermost layer of your zine. Your first sheet of paper will need to have the first and last pages printed two-up on one side, and then the second page and second-to-last page two-up on the other side. We're printing folio fashion here, each printed sheet intended to be folded once. I assume here that you do not wish to print quarto fashion, or any of the more exotic folded forms. The problem you will now encounter is how to get this PDF into "booklet order" printed two-up (two pages to the page). Don't use many fonts, and keep them simple.Īt some point here you will have a PDF file, I dare say, filled with pictures, some design elements, and perhaps some text. Try to give the pages a little structure. Don't forget to insert a page or two of front matter (a half-title page, a dedication, a colophon, a masthead, whatever suits your fancy, but do put something in). Let us assume, though, that you are using a fairly normal editing tool, and struggling through the limitations of same. Alternatively, you may be able to use Docs with two columns on a landscape page, and thereby "lay out" a spread at a time, rather than a page at a time. Then you can physically trim your book to define the outer margins. If you make left and right margins equal, this defines the inner margins. InDesign, I dare say, would be quite a bit better than either of those, and stratospherically better than Google's atrocity. Usually I use OpenOffice or Blurb's toolchain. It does not understand left/right pages, all pages are equal to Docs. I did the design and layout in Google's Docs tool, which is terrible, but there you have it. Let us consider the pictures themselves a solved problem. The pictures I did in the way I always do, in GIMP, but you may use whatever your normal photographic tools are, if any. The thing is called REACT because I hope that the reader will.
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