For anyone working with Microsoft word, go to file then hit print. On the print page, click page setup at the bottom of page. Select landscape then under that will be a drop down menu. Select book fold then choose how many pages you want in your section. I generally do 16. It will print your whole document in sections if you have a printer that prints both sides.
@@user-it1cp3ux5r I think there is a button for flipping that. I am not anywhere near a computer at the moment to tell you but it should say something like flip horizontal or vertical. Or it might have a picture of where 3 holes would be for a 3 ring binder. If they are on the top or the side will change how the back side is printed
I've printed 600+ books just using the booklet option on the free Adobe Acrobat Reader and making a "booklet guide" on a scrap paper by hand and then I criss-crossed the pages as I printed them xD
@@kf9058 On Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (free one) version 2021.005.20048 (latest as of today) allows you to do so. All you must do is selecting "multiple pages per sheet" on 2, and then on pages to print, you put them separated by a comma; a 4 sheets booklet should be "16,1,2,15,14,3,4,13,12,5,6,11,10,7,8,9" and finally setting the printer on "print double sided" so it'll print one side of the sheets and them you put them back onto the feeding tray upside down.
Im cataloging my observations of native wildflowers in my area and writing descriptions of them and whatnot. Once I get enough to justify printing and binding them I'll definitely be using this video as a guide. Thank you so much for this video dude you've done an excellent job explaining everything in detail, can't thank you enough 🙏
I’m just getting into book binding at the moment, and I’ve been watching some of your videos to orient myself. I would just like to say, you come across as a very pleasant person, and I greatly enjoy your videos! They’re calm and clear, the perfect videos for learning. I’m looking forward to binding my first book :)
This was extremely helpful!! I was just watching out of curiosity, but I fully got up in the middle of the night to take notes because you gave me that light-bulb moment some of the other tutorials were missing. Thank you so much!
Thank you for your video, it spurred me on to create an automated solution to this problem. I wrote a tiny program that rearranges any PDF document for signature printing. It basically does the same thing as you manually did in Adobe Reader. Amount of signatures and sheets per signature are configurable. I'm currently testing & fleshing it out. Let me know if anyone could use something like that
Thank you for making this video. I had great success in using your video and a slotted wrapper binding for my first project. As I'm on linux not all the software was available. In the end I used the free LibreOffice Draw to add extra pages and pdf jam to print the signatures. In your terminal you can use the example below to make signatures from 3 pages. A4 is the default. pdfjam input.pdf --signature 12 --landscape --outfile output.pdf
This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much for this channel! Your explanations are very clear and your voice is very soothing, just perfect.
This is amazing. Thank you so much, I’ve been meaning to start bookbinding for years, and this is allowing me to get started. Excellent videos, I can’t wait to continue to learn.
I don't bookbind, but I find these videos of yours very relaxing and really interesting. Many thanks for the work and effort you have put into your work. I binge watch and love it❤️👍👍👌👌
I would have appreciated some information on how to do this in Windows, but your explanations of the terminology has helped me find the right tools I need. Thank you!
Absoltely superb!! I was going to be sorting and printing my booklet content by hand! Imagine that! I am addicted to your chennel! Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom with us
One of the programs I use on the windows machine is PDFSamBasic which is a free program for manipulating PDF documents. It separates them into pages and then you can rearrange the pages to print in the correct order. Thank you for the tutorial. I am looking forward to the next video as I am doing a 3 section memorial book and the binding you describe looks perfect for it.
Thanks for sharing the PDF tools. I think for a memorial book I would use a fore-edge square which the board paper wraps around. It just feels much nicer in the hand. I'll cover this in Saturdays video. It's uploading now. Happy binding!
5:20 For double sided printing when your printer doesn’t have this capability, in Abode Reader, select to print Odd pages only. After all the sheets are printed, put whole stack back in the paper tray and select to print Even pages only AND check Reverse pages. If you have odd number of pages to print, remember to remove the last page. I made a booklet from a long handout and so happy with the way it came out. Thank you.
This would be perfect for knitting and crochet pdf files! Sometimes they are awkward to organise when they're just loose pages but this would be great!
Thank you so much for this!! This is exactly what I need! You have a great straight-forward way of teaching, I really appreciate that. I'm a new subscriber and I'm excited to start a bookbinding videos marathon, all from your channel. :)
If you don't have a printer that can print double sided, you can print half of the pages, then reinsert those pages into the printer, to be printed on, making sure to flip them so they'll be printed onto the blank side. (making sure you flip it so it won't print upside down)
That is tricky. Do do that you first need to print every second page and then do the same when you re-feed, but the pages that weren't printed first time. Possible, but tricky. Good luck! DAS
Libre Office Writer (and presumably other word processors) print dialogue has odd/even pages as an option for exactly this purpose. The only thing I found is that I often get the occasional sheet that goes a bit skewed on its second pass through the printer (despite taking care to stack neatly and having a fairly good printer). So I always carefully check the text is square to the page (after folding as subtle skew is sometimes not noticeable straight out of the printer) and repeat print any skewed prints.
Hello I’m sorry but I still don’t know your name, I’ve been watching some of your videos for a while and I’d like to say a big thanks for all the knowledge you’re sharing in your videos, I’m a very young hobbiest bookbinder and I’ve been doing it for 4-5 years now sporadically, I’m not much of a community person with my hobbies and this sometimes is a big disadvantage, so I really appreciate all the tips and tricks you share with us! Hugs from Brazil!
Hi Marina, I'm Darryn Schneider. I love hearing from Brazil, a place I've never visited but that I feel a strong connection to. I hope you are staying safe in these tough times. Happy binding and all the best, Dazza.
Thank you very much for this. Ive been racking my brain trying to figure out a good printing method for book binding. This should certainly help. Ive gotten sime to print doing a teadious manual method and the size doesnt come out right or the pages dont print right. Will try this method tomorrow.
thank you so much for this!!! i went out and about looking for a tutorial like this for so long 🥺 i had no idea about this when i started my small business, so the manufacturer just stapled a 200-page (A5)x 100-page (A4), planner. it was so hard to lay it flat. a lot has broken before the year ended. it was so frustrating :(
For me as I use InDesign I have created imposition files that I can re-use by changing the linked pdf file, especially eg when printing say A6 booklets (on A5 sheets) on an A3 sheet, then trimmed to size... especially fun then getting the trimmed stacks worked out to save manual sorting time. I know there is software for this, but for my needs once I have set this up once, it is easy to use again later.
Everything else is so easy to understand, but the problem I can’t find a solution to is a too-wide margin, making my text really small. I used docs to type out my text, (12pt, normal margins), and Adobe Acrobat to print the booklet. How do I get it to fill more of the page and look better?
Does booklet creator make the impositioned sheets if you want to have more than one fold per sheet? I'm currently using the free version of Acrobat, almost exactly like how you demonstrated, except I exported the entire pdf from where I was formatting the pages, and then selected the pages I wanted to make into a booklet as I impositioned them. It seems a bit more efficient, since you don't have to export so many pdfs (about half).
🤔 I'll have to look at the free method. See if the pages are in the right order. If so that solves my problem. Thanks 👍 Yep it worked. Although free acrobat didn't let me change the flip to short side. So I had to use another program. But the saving to files the signatures works great thank
Yes. Short grain A3 for making A4 sized books is fairly easy. That seems to be the standard for copy paper. I guess the assumption is that most printers feed the short dimension through the machine. We have been sourcing a long grain A3 paper called Supreme from a printing supply company. It's made in Thailand. That's what I used for this project. All the best, DAS
This is great! I usually use a program called PDF architect, but when printing booklets with more than one signature it always puts the first page to be printed as the ‘cover’ regardless of me trying to print the next section, and I can’t seem to make it understand that it isn’t a new cover. This option looks great, and even though I don’t have acrobat pro, the other option (Finder, I think? I need to look up for the Windows version) seems like it will solve my problems. Thank you!
Thank you. ... Is it a problem if the original PDF file pages (from the original PDF ebook) are not the same size as final document -- the 1/2 of the A4 (or Letter size) sheet that will printed ?
Hello, I want to print a book for preserving, which printer should I use laser or inkjet? How long would the prints last. Thanks 👍 for simplifying the printing process.
I'm not an expert on this, but I believe Laser printing is considered long lasting. But if you want to use an inkjet, Epson make special long lasting inks. Good luck!
I'm still going a bit crazy with this. I have a book written in A5 size, so that I can print it double sided on a A4 page. Still I'm not understanding how the whole booklet thing works. Could you do a tutorial using PC and Word? Thank you so much!
Hi thanks for the video. I have 161 page book I want to print in sections. It's in pdf how to I print it in sections without messing with the numbering flow? Thanks
I think you are asking if you can buy unbound sheets. Generally no. Most books are made in large facilities dealing with huge throughput and they will not want to be asked to pull sheets from the production process. There are a small number of small publishers that use small binding facilities and have some reason for wanting to offer their books in sheets. The one that comes to mind is Legacy Press www.thelegacypress.com
Print that range to a pdf and then print the new pdf as a booklet. I'm sure some applications will let you do this directly without the first step. Good luck!
Okay, I made a book once maybe a year or two ago following this. But im back here again to start up again, and Im totally confused with how many pages per booklet to choose when creating a book. :( For some reason my head cannot wrap around what to choose. For example, the current book Id like to make is 84 pages. How do I do the math to figure this out? 🤣🤦♀ I'm sorry for the dumb question...math/word problems were not my strong suit in school. ha.
Check out the video on swell and how to manage it. But I'll also paste in some information I recently sent someone else. I use bookletcreator. It is very basic, but works well. www.bookletcreator.com/ Here is an example of how I use it. I might have a pdf file that is 100 pages long and I want to make a book US letter size using 4 sheet sections. I usually would add 12 blank pages to the file to get a total of 112 pages, which is 7 sections. I believe the program will do this for you, but I like to do it myself. I often also make changes like adding the occasional blank page so the chapters always start on the recto and title page also on the rector. I might add a blank leaf at the front. I might even change the number of sheets per section to avoid too many blank pages. But it depends on page numbering and other layout factors. I use acrobat pro to make these changes. I set the paper size to "tabloid" and the number of pages to 16 (2 pages per leaf, 2 leaves per sheet, 4 sheets per section). I drag the file into bookletcreator and "create booklet". It produces a single file which when printed on tabloid paper is 7 sections in order for folding. When folding I'm always checking that the 2 pages in the center of the section are sequential and the first page of the next section is the page number after the last page of the previous section. It is really easy to get the sheets out of order. Almost forgot, when I print I always check that the double sided printing is set to "bind" on the short edge. Otherwise half the pages will be upside down:)
What do you suggest would be the way to go if I have a book with 242 pages? 21 12 page sections for 252 pages or 16 16 page sections for 256 pages? Or is there another configuration I can try?
Check out my video on swell. The swell needed (or not needed) for the type of binding being made is one of the main factors in how many sheets to use in a section. Good luck. DAS
No. This is one of the feature requests I've made. But I don't think the app is being actively developed. It's cheap and mostly does the job. I wouldn't highly recommend it. If you want a cheap tool that gets a job done fast and easy, this is good.
That is why I use booklet creator. There are many solutions to achieving this. Depends on computer, OS, and applications that you use. Books are so much simpler than computers! DAS
Sorry I don't understand. There are a few considerations. You need to get the swell to what you need for the structure you are making. Watch my video on swell to understand that. But it also depends on the number of pages in the book. If you want 4 sheet sections (16 pages) and the book is 30 pages long, then it will be 2 4 sheet sections with 2 blank pages at the end. Hope that helps. DAS
I've bound quite a few books from folded up sheets but only left one uncut. Main reason for doing this is draw attention to beautiful hand made paper. Unfortunately I don't get that many books like this in uncut sheets to bind:) DAS
thank you so much for this. i've been trying to understand how to organize the pages to make the signatures for a while but my head just got more confusing with each site and article that i read. i found this explanation really useful. now i can bind my own book and i'm really happy!
Mister Darren, I am ... weary ... of imposing my pages by hand. Will Booklet Creator work with smaller, 1/4th sheet size pages, instead of 1/2 sheet pages? I'm starting to work on the little Christmas books soon. Thank you. Deb
I've just stumbled across your videos and am blown away by them. Thanks so much for making all this content available. The quality and detail are exceptional. I made a little booklet for my club last year to record some historic moments. I think I made a reasonable first attempt and was quite surprised at how satisfying and fairly straight forward the whole process was. I've since noticed a few typos and some factual errors, and knowing what I know now am about to do a second edition. My booklet is in A6 format, so I'm printing 4 pages on each side of an A4 sheet in portrait, doing this twice and cutting along the horizontal to give a 16 page section. I've worked out how to lay these out to get the correct order but it is seriously l a b o u r i o u s! Have you any hints about taking the labour out of this? Does Booklet Creator or anything similar have a facility to do this? Thanks.
Hi! The laying out is called imposition. I believe there is some good cheap/free software that would do this. But haven't got around to looking into it. What I would do is cut the A4 paper in half to A5 and then use BookletCreator to make the pdf to print on the A5, assuming your printer prints on A5. Good luck! DAS
@@DASBookbinding Hi. Thanks for suggestions. I like your idea of cutting to A5. That's thinking outside the box. There is nothing in my printer documentation that suggests it can do A5 but interestingly there is an A5 setting in the paper settings so I will investigate that. I've also been looking to see what software is available and as well as booklet creator there is something called Clickbook which looks interesting. I'll do a bit of digging/experimenting. Failing that I know how to do it "long handed". Cheers, Niel.
I'm not quite sure where to ask this question so I shall just leave it here! What is the best binding/cover option for a book to lay open flat, such as a missal for a religious service? If there is one, do you have a video explaining this? Thanks very much in advance for your help!
Such a complex question that I couldn't do justice in UA-cam comments, and without more information. Missals have traditionally been bound with an aesthetic component as well as functional. It also depends on level of binding skill. I would suggest sewn-board binding as simple structure to execute and that could be adapted to a wide varieties of finished look. I've got a series of videos on this structure. Limp leather covers is another common solution for missals, and I will probably have a series of video on this in the next 6 months (it's on the list anyway). Hope this helps. I would enjoy discussing this further if you want to send me a message at darryn@dasbookbinding.com
Hi, I'm looking to start out of printing books from pdf's, but I'm a total beginner, which binding method would you say is the most easiest and fast, with least materials/tools used, whilst still giving a good result? Thanks so much
The stiff paper binding ua-cam.com/video/PGcG2v4TXw0/v-deo.html or square back Bradel binding. A couple of pressing boards and a brick for weight and usual things like Olfa knife and steel rule are all you need.
For anyone working with Microsoft word, go to file then hit print. On the print page, click page setup at the bottom of page. Select landscape then under that will be a drop down menu. Select book fold then choose how many pages you want in your section. I generally do 16. It will print your whole document in sections if you have a printer that prints both sides.
I don't seem to have that option. Maybe because I use a Mac? All the best, DAS
It could be an older version of word? Mine is 2018 or 19 version.
The back side prints the text upside-down. Is there a function I'm forgetting?
@@user-it1cp3ux5r I think there is a button for flipping that. I am not anywhere near a computer at the moment to tell you but it should say something like flip horizontal or vertical. Or it might have a picture of where 3 holes would be for a 3 ring binder. If they are on the top or the side will change how the back side is printed
@@shannabolser9428 thank you for taking the time to reply. That's so kind of you. I'll try this when my energy level is back. Thank youu
For those watching in late 2021 onwards, word also has the option to create signatures. It's the "book fold" option in page setup.
You are the only person I have seen actually explain all the terminology and how they work!! Thank you!!!! I am so so grateful
Page Imposition! that's the term I've been looking for all morning. Thanks!
You are lucky, I spent years looking for the term. It looks like "booklet" is the setting we need to look for in most programs. Happy binding.
THANK YOU!!! Even if it’s too late, you don’t know how much time I spent looking for this!!!! Thank you
This is exactly what I needed. I was stressing out trying to figure out the math on what pages to print for every side of every page
You have just saved my sanity. Thank you so much!! I just couldn’t get my head wrapped around the imposition. Thank you!
I've printed 600+ books just using the booklet option on the free Adobe Acrobat Reader and making a "booklet guide" on a scrap paper by hand and then I criss-crossed the pages as I printed them xD
Thanks for your tip! DAS
You can still make signatures using this option?
@@kf9058 On Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (free one) version 2021.005.20048 (latest as of today) allows you to do so.
All you must do is selecting "multiple pages per sheet" on 2, and then on pages to print, you put them separated by a comma; a 4 sheets booklet should be "16,1,2,15,14,3,4,13,12,5,6,11,10,7,8,9" and finally setting the printer on "print double sided" so it'll print one side of the sheets and them you put them back onto the feeding tray upside down.
Ty for commenting💯
Im cataloging my observations of native wildflowers in my area and writing descriptions of them and whatnot. Once I get enough to justify printing and binding them I'll definitely be using this video as a guide. Thank you so much for this video dude you've done an excellent job explaining everything in detail, can't thank you enough 🙏
I’m just getting into book binding at the moment, and I’ve been watching some of your videos to orient myself. I would just like to say, you come across as a very pleasant person, and I greatly enjoy your videos! They’re calm and clear, the perfect videos for learning. I’m looking forward to binding my first book :)
This is so helpful! I'm making a Christmas gift for a friend, and this is exactly the tutorial I needed. Now on to the stiffened paper binding video!
Thanks! Im from Chile, and I coudn't find this type of tutorial anywhere in spanish. Thanks a lot again, its all very clear
This was extremely helpful!! I was just watching out of curiosity, but I fully got up in the middle of the night to take notes because you gave me that light-bulb moment some of the other tutorials were missing. Thank you so much!
I have been looking for this way of making my own books. Thank you, I shall be watching this tutorial many times.
You are so welcome! DAS
Thank you so much for this, it really helped me a lot.
Thank you for your video, it spurred me on to create an automated solution to this problem.
I wrote a tiny program that rearranges any PDF document for signature printing. It basically does the same thing as you manually did in Adobe Reader. Amount of signatures and sheets per signature are configurable. I'm currently testing & fleshing it out. Let me know if anyone could use something like that
I just found your channel, and I'm so glad! I've been waiting for a channel like this, and this video here looks like the perfect first project.
Good luck! Sewn boards is a also a good starting point. DAS
Thank you for making this video. I had great success in using your video and a slotted wrapper binding for my first project.
As I'm on linux not all the software was available. In the end I used the free LibreOffice Draw to add extra pages and pdf jam to print the signatures.
In your terminal you can use the example below to make signatures from 3 pages. A4 is the default.
pdfjam input.pdf --signature 12 --landscape --outfile output.pdf
This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much for this channel! Your explanations are very clear and your voice is very soothing, just perfect.
This is amazing. Thank you so much, I’ve been meaning to start bookbinding for years, and this is allowing me to get started. Excellent videos, I can’t wait to continue to learn.
I'm excited to find this!! Gonna do it. Ty for demonstration🙌🏽 I've subscribed and saved this to a playlist🤸♀️
you are a heven send sir, ive been struggling to’ figure out how to format the pages that way, but thank you so much for this tutorial
I don't bookbind, but I find these videos of yours very relaxing and really interesting. Many thanks for the work and effort you have put into your work. I binge watch and love it❤️👍👍👌👌
Phenomenal video! I need to figure out how to make it a bit smaller almost pocket size but you’ve given me hope with this video.
I would have appreciated some information on how to do this in Windows, but your explanations of the terminology has helped me find the right tools I need. Thank you!
Sorry, I'm an Apple user.
I am so grateful to have found this outstanding tutorial, your exceptional professional channel. Thank you so much, you solved my problems! Thank you
Absoltely superb!! I was going to be sorting and printing my booklet content by hand! Imagine that!
I am addicted to your chennel! Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom with us
Huge help man! Sectioning pages from mac print tool is really very helpful. Can't thank you enough
Thank you so much! I knew there was an app for the imposition part but I didn't know which one. It was very helpful!
Thank God I finally found this. I don't know the english term "imposition" before so I have no way of googling it.
Thank you so much now I can print books that I've read so I don't have to be scared to loose them
One of the programs I use on the windows machine is PDFSamBasic which is a free program for manipulating PDF documents. It separates them into pages and then you can rearrange the pages to print in the correct order. Thank you for the tutorial. I am looking forward to the next video as I am doing a 3 section memorial book and the binding you describe looks perfect for it.
Thanks for sharing the PDF tools. I think for a memorial book I would use a fore-edge square which the board paper wraps around. It just feels much nicer in the hand. I'll cover this in Saturdays video. It's uploading now. Happy binding!
I LOVE the way you fold the sections. So perfect.
5:20 For double sided printing when your printer doesn’t have this capability, in Abode Reader, select to print Odd pages only. After all the sheets are printed, put whole stack back in the paper tray and select to print Even pages only AND check Reverse pages. If you have odd number of pages to print, remember to remove the last page. I made a booklet from a long handout and so happy with the way it came out. Thank you.
This would be perfect for knitting and crochet pdf files! Sometimes they are awkward to organise when they're just loose pages but this would be great!
Thank you so much for this!! This is exactly what I need! You have a great straight-forward way of teaching, I really appreciate that.
I'm a new subscriber and I'm excited to start a bookbinding videos marathon, all from your channel. :)
I love booklet creator, thank you I downloaded it and purchased it
Such wonderful pedagogy and dedication to the craft. Thanks!
This vid is great! I can really understand it, thank you for explaining everything step by step
You're very welcome! DAS
If you don't have a printer that can print double sided, you can print half of the pages, then reinsert those pages into the printer, to be printed on, making sure to flip them so they'll be printed onto the blank side. (making sure you flip it so it won't print upside down)
That is tricky. Do do that you first need to print every second page and then do the same when you re-feed, but the pages that weren't printed first time. Possible, but tricky. Good luck! DAS
oh yes you would have to do that, that's right, I forgot to mention that, thankyou :)
Libre Office Writer (and presumably other word processors) print dialogue has odd/even pages as an option for exactly this purpose. The only thing I found is that I often get the occasional sheet that goes a bit skewed on its second pass through the printer (despite taking care to stack neatly and having a fairly good printer). So I always carefully check the text is square to the page (after folding as subtle skew is sometimes not noticeable straight out of the printer) and repeat print any skewed prints.
I literally was just about to do this and then I saw your video.
Cool! DAS
Thank you so much, I've been looking for this for a long time...❤
This video is awesome. I've been trying to do this for the longest time. Thank you!
Hello I’m sorry but I still don’t know your name, I’ve been watching some of your videos for a while and I’d like to say a big thanks for all the knowledge you’re sharing in your videos, I’m a very young hobbiest bookbinder and I’ve been doing it for 4-5 years now sporadically, I’m not much of a community person with my hobbies and this sometimes is a big disadvantage, so I really appreciate all the tips and tricks you share with us! Hugs from Brazil!
Hi Marina, I'm Darryn Schneider. I love hearing from Brazil, a place I've never visited but that I feel a strong connection to. I hope you are staying safe in these tough times. Happy binding and all the best, Dazza.
I enjoyed the Cheerio at the end. Deserving of a like
Thank you so much, so far the best bookbinding video on youtube, your way of explaining is very helpful, keep up the great work
Thanks for the good instructions. Very nice result!
Thank you very much for this. Ive been racking my brain trying to figure out a good printing method for book binding. This should certainly help. Ive gotten sime to print doing a teadious manual method and the size doesnt come out right or the pages dont print right. Will try this method tomorrow.
thank you so much for this!!! i went out and about looking for a tutorial like this for so long 🥺
i had no idea about this when i started my small business, so the manufacturer just stapled a 200-page (A5)x 100-page (A4), planner. it was so hard to lay it flat. a lot has broken before the year ended. it was so frustrating :(
Try and find somewhere that will do sewn sections. Much more appropriate for something that will get daily use. Good luck! DAS
This tutorial is incredibly helpful! Thanks for posting!
super informative! Very helpful for formatting with pdf!
Mate, you're absolutely brilliant. Thank you!
Are there any programs that do page imposition for stab bindings?
For me as I use InDesign I have created imposition files that I can re-use by changing the linked pdf file, especially eg when printing say A6 booklets (on A5 sheets) on an A3 sheet, then trimmed to size... especially fun then getting the trimmed stacks worked out to save manual sorting time. I know there is software for this, but for my needs once I have set this up once, it is easy to use again later.
Everything else is so easy to understand, but the problem I can’t find a solution to is a too-wide margin, making my text really small. I used docs to type out my text, (12pt, normal margins), and Adobe Acrobat to print the booklet. How do I get it to fill more of the page and look better?
Does booklet creator make the impositioned sheets if you want to have more than one fold per sheet?
I'm currently using the free version of Acrobat, almost exactly like how you demonstrated, except I exported the entire pdf from where I was formatting the pages, and then selected the pages I wanted to make into a booklet as I impositioned them. It seems a bit more efficient, since you don't have to export so many pdfs (about half).
No unfortunately.
best video i get today❣️❣️...thank you forever❤️
🤔 I'll have to look at the free method. See if the pages are in the right order. If so that solves my problem. Thanks 👍
Yep it worked. Although free acrobat didn't let me change the flip to short side. So I had to use another program. But the saving to files the signatures works great thank
Did you use short grain paper for that? I find it difficult to get A4 and A3 paper in the right grain direction to make A4 and A5 books to sew.
Yes. Short grain A3 for making A4 sized books is fairly easy. That seems to be the standard for copy paper. I guess the assumption is that most printers feed the short dimension through the machine. We have been sourcing a long grain A3 paper called Supreme from a printing supply company. It's made in Thailand. That's what I used for this project. All the best, DAS
Can I use Adobe Pro for the following as well: I want to print B6 sized pages on A4 with cut marks as a booklet. Can this be set up in Adobe Pro?
Very informative! I’ve been making blank books. I’d like to make books with content, one day.
yes this is what I needed!!! Thanks so much!!!
This is great! I usually use a program called PDF architect, but when printing booklets with more than one signature it always puts the first page to be printed as the ‘cover’ regardless of me trying to print the next section, and I can’t seem to make it understand that it isn’t a new cover. This option looks great, and even though I don’t have acrobat pro, the other option (Finder, I think? I need to look up for the Windows version) seems like it will solve my problems. Thank you!
Variation Goldberg add a nice touch!
thanks for this! very informative!
Thank you. ... Is it a problem if the original PDF file pages (from the original PDF ebook) are not the same size as final document -- the 1/2 of the A4 (or Letter size) sheet that will printed ?
No, it normally scales, as long as there isn't any protection in the pdf that stops modification. DAS
Hello, I want to print a book for preserving, which printer should I use laser or inkjet? How long would the prints last.
Thanks 👍 for simplifying the printing process.
I'm not an expert on this, but I believe Laser printing is considered long lasting. But if you want to use an inkjet, Epson make special long lasting inks. Good luck!
@@DASBookbinding I will give it a try. Thanks for replying.
I'm still going a bit crazy with this. I have a book written in A5 size, so that I can print it double sided on a A4 page. Still I'm not understanding how the whole booklet thing works. Could you do a tutorial using PC and Word? Thank you so much!
Hi thanks for the video. I have 161 page book I want to print in sections. It's in pdf how to I print it in sections without messing with the numbering flow? Thanks
I'm not really sure what you're asking. But I use a little app called BookletCreator to put my pages into sections. Good luck!
Excellent work sir ... This will help me a lot
best tutorial ever, thank you! :)
thank you for the video!!
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Can a person purchase impositions of books from a professional press so they can then bind the imposition?
I think you are asking if you can buy unbound sheets. Generally no. Most books are made in large facilities dealing with huge throughput and they will not want to be asked to pull sheets from the production process. There are a small number of small publishers that use small binding facilities and have some reason for wanting to offer their books in sheets. The one that comes to mind is Legacy Press
www.thelegacypress.com
What would I do if I wanted to print only pages 150-180 of a 300 page pdf of a book as a booklet? I can’t find help on this. Thank you.
5:16 like this?
Print that range to a pdf and then print the new pdf as a booklet. I'm sure some applications will let you do this directly without the first step. Good luck!
Okay, I made a book once maybe a year or two ago following this. But im back here again to start up again, and Im totally confused with how many pages per booklet to choose when creating a book. :( For some reason my head cannot wrap around what to choose. For example, the current book Id like to make is 84 pages. How do I do the math to figure this out? 🤣🤦♀ I'm sorry for the dumb question...math/word problems were not my strong suit in school. ha.
Check out the video on swell and how to manage it. But I'll also paste in some information I recently sent someone else.
I use bookletcreator. It is very basic, but works well.
www.bookletcreator.com/
Here is an example of how I use it. I might have a pdf file that is
100 pages long and I want to make a book US letter size using 4 sheet
sections. I usually would add 12 blank pages to the file to get a
total of 112 pages, which is 7 sections. I believe the program will
do this for you, but I like to do it myself. I often also make
changes like adding the occasional blank page so the chapters always
start on the recto and title page also on the rector. I might add a
blank leaf at the front. I might even change the number of sheets per
section to avoid too many blank pages. But it depends on page
numbering and other layout factors. I use acrobat pro to make these
changes. I set the paper size to "tabloid" and the number of pages to
16 (2 pages per leaf, 2 leaves per sheet, 4 sheets per section). I
drag the file into bookletcreator and "create booklet". It produces a
single file which when printed on tabloid paper is 7 sections in order
for folding. When folding I'm always checking that the 2 pages in the
center of the section are sequential and the first page of the next
section is the page number after the last page of the previous
section. It is really easy to get the sheets out of order. Almost
forgot, when I print I always check that the double sided printing is
set to "bind" on the short edge. Otherwise half the pages will be
upside down:)
Is it easy to find A4 printer paper with the grain perpendicular? 🤔
I have problems installing Booklet Creator, do you know any other way for doing this? Thank you in advance
Not that are cheap. Some people tell me the free very of the Adobe reader will do booklets, but I'm not sure this is true on a Mac. Good luck, DAS
Thank you very much, this was super helpful.
thank you so mutch this really helped me 😭❤❤
What do you suggest would be the way to go if I have a book with 242 pages? 21 12 page sections for 252 pages or 16 16 page sections for 256 pages? Or is there another configuration I can try?
Check out my video on swell. The swell needed (or not needed) for the type of binding being made is one of the main factors in how many sheets to use in a section. Good luck. DAS
Well Done ! The inside gap between two pages is it possible to change ?
In windows I use pdfbooklet, is free and on sourceforge, you can edit the gaps there, resize pages, etc
No. This is one of the feature requests I've made. But I don't think the app is being actively developed. It's cheap and mostly does the job. I wouldn't highly recommend it. If you want a cheap tool that gets a job done fast and easy, this is good.
you sir are a god send. thanks so much!
😊 🙏 😊
thank you so much for sharing this video!
This is good information! Unfortunately I don't have a Print Booklet button on my printer options.
That is why I use booklet creator. There are many solutions to achieving this. Depends on computer, OS, and applications that you use. Books are so much simpler than computers! DAS
I have a question yhat how to select the valid booklet size for given no of pages in a book. Cuz i scuffed a print by that.
Pls tell
Sorry I don't understand. There are a few considerations. You need to get the swell to what you need for the structure you are making. Watch my video on swell to understand that. But it also depends on the number of pages in the book. If you want 4 sheet sections (16 pages) and the book is 30 pages long, then it will be 2 4 sheet sections with 2 blank pages at the end. Hope that helps. DAS
can you print pdf files without putting them in signatures first than do it when the document is already printed out?
No. Signatures/sections are folded. The pages need to be in the order needed before this.
What kind of printer to you use?
What did you use to cover the back?? Tape??
No, it's buckram bookcloth. I never use pre-gummed tape. The adhesives are notoriously unstable.
what is the list of equipment and materials i need for doing it?? im thinking small business @@DASBookbinding
great video! how would you do this if you don’t have a double sided printer?
Print every other page then flip the paper and refeed doing every other page + 1?
Have you ever bound a book with, say, quarto pages, and left the edges untrimmed? (So the reader would have to use a paper knife?)
I've bound quite a few books from folded up sheets but only left one uncut. Main reason for doing this is draw attention to beautiful hand made paper. Unfortunately I don't get that many books like this in uncut sheets to bind:) DAS
thank you so much for this. i've been trying to understand how to organize the pages to make the signatures for a while but my head just got more confusing with each site and article that i read. i found this explanation really useful. now i can bind my own book and i'm really happy!
Mister Darren, I am ... weary ... of imposing my pages by hand. Will Booklet Creator work with smaller, 1/4th sheet size pages, instead of 1/2 sheet pages? I'm starting to work on the little Christmas books soon. Thank you. Deb
I think I understand and no. It’s not a real imposition tool. But cheap and easy for simple jobs.
@@DASBookbinding Thank you. I will ... continue to find ways around paying for and learning InDesign or Illustrator :)
I've just stumbled across your videos and am blown away by them. Thanks so much for making all this content available. The quality and detail are exceptional. I made a little booklet for my club last year to record some historic moments. I think I made a reasonable first attempt and was quite surprised at how satisfying and fairly straight forward the whole process was. I've since noticed a few typos and some factual errors, and knowing what I know now am about to do a second edition. My booklet is in A6 format, so I'm printing 4 pages on each side of an A4 sheet in portrait, doing this twice and cutting along the horizontal to give a 16 page section. I've worked out how to lay these out to get the correct order but it is seriously l a b o u r i o u s! Have you any hints about taking the labour out of this? Does Booklet Creator or anything similar have a facility to do this? Thanks.
Hi! The laying out is called imposition. I believe there is some good cheap/free software that would do this. But haven't got around to looking into it. What I would do is cut the A4 paper in half to A5 and then use BookletCreator to make the pdf to print on the A5, assuming your printer prints on A5. Good luck! DAS
@@DASBookbinding Hi. Thanks for suggestions. I like your idea of cutting to A5. That's thinking outside the box. There is nothing in my printer documentation that suggests it can do A5 but interestingly there is an A5 setting in the paper settings so I will investigate that. I've also been looking to see what software is available and as well as booklet creator there is something called Clickbook which looks interesting. I'll do a bit of digging/experimenting. Failing that I know how to do it "long handed". Cheers, Niel.
I'm not quite sure where to ask this question so I shall just leave it here! What is the best binding/cover option for a book to lay open flat, such as a missal for a religious service? If there is one, do you have a video explaining this? Thanks very much in advance for your help!
Such a complex question that I couldn't do justice in UA-cam comments, and without more information. Missals have traditionally been bound with an aesthetic component as well as functional. It also depends on level of binding skill. I would suggest sewn-board binding as simple structure to execute and that could be adapted to a wide varieties of finished look. I've got a series of videos on this structure. Limp leather covers is another common solution for missals, and I will probably have a series of video on this in the next 6 months (it's on the list anyway). Hope this helps. I would enjoy discussing this further if you want to send me a message at darryn@dasbookbinding.com
@@DASBookbinding Thank you, Darryn. I shall drop you an email in due course. Best wishes and thanks!
What if I want to print something on the spine?
Yes, just ahead and print it on the material before you cut it to size. I do this in the video for Benjamin Bunny.
Hi, curious one here. Do you perhaps have a software where I can do it in my mobile phone?
Sorry, no
@@DASBookbinding oh. That's ok, thank for the reply
OMG Buchan Caves - it's a tourism book for Victoria!
Thank's for this video!
You're welcome! DAS
Hey, I want to ask. What should I do when I don't have a printer that can do a double sided printing? Thank you for your answer!
Print every other page and then feed the paper through upside down doing the other pages? Good luck! DAS
Hi, I'm looking to start out of printing books from pdf's, but I'm a total beginner, which binding method would you say is the most easiest and fast, with least materials/tools used, whilst still giving a good result? Thanks so much
The stiff paper binding
ua-cam.com/video/PGcG2v4TXw0/v-deo.html
or square back Bradel binding.
A couple of pressing boards and a brick for weight and usual things like Olfa knife and steel rule are all you need.