Impose your files, create printer's spreads, booklets. Tips to get your pages in the right order for printing.
In order to read, print out of order. Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4 ... that's the order in which we read a book or newsletter. But is that the way we print them? Not always. Learn how to impose your pages to create printers spreads that become readers spreads.
Knowing how commercial printers position your pages for printing can be an important planning factor when it comes to adding color and spreading graphics across a 2-page spread.
Try one of these utilities or plug-ins for putting your pages in proper printing order.
For Mac users, try these programs for imposing your pages.
Withflair Software has an impressive online library of impositions and binding methods for planning printing jobs. Pick a style, choose number of pages, and see impositions (created with their Impose-it software).
From Hillside Printing Desktop Tips, how to set up business cards, fliers, and longer documents for printing.
A brief explanation of these terms from My Design Primer.
This tutorial uses ALAP InBooklet to turn readers spreads into printers spreads.
This tutorial uses ALAP's Imposer XTension.
