1. How To Print Booklet In Word For Mac
2. How To Print A Booklet In Word For Mac 2011
3. Print A Booklet In Word
4. How To Print A Booklet In Word For Mac 2011

Double-sided 2-up Printing on a Single-sided Printer

If you want to print a booklet from Word X or Word 2004, it can be done without an expensive printer. This article explains how to do it, step-by-step. But there are three caveats.

Caveats

1. These instructions are for an A5 booklet on an A4 printer that delivers face down after printing on the top face of the sheets fed from the input tray. That is, if you are printing portrait A4, the first page is at the bottom of the heap with its top edge first out of the machine. This, fortunately, is the most common set-up on mid-price printers.

1. Whether you want to create a booklet for an event or print out an ambitious book project, consider using the pre-built page settings for booklets that comes with Word. The Book Fold layout sets you up for printing your masterpiece automatically in the correct order, ready for folding and binding.
2. Jul 12, 2018 Print word document as booklet guide and step by step tutorial. You may searching how to make a booklet in Microsoft Word or Print a booklet in PDF or word doc, then this tutorial is for you. But first of all, Let us first create a booklet in word using our windows PC or MAC.

2. This has been tested with OS X 10.3.x. You need its vastly improved Preview program and new print options.

Apr 15, 2010 Most tutorials explain well how to do it on MS Word 2007. But not for Mac users. I appreciate it very much. Now, I can even make a booklet using Pages instead of MS Word. I tried installing the CreateBooklet1.1.dmg and go ahead print my documents, choose the create booklet option on PDF button on my print page. Prepare a Document as a Booklet in Microsoft Word 2016. Before you can start entering content into your booklet, you need to set up Microsoft Word first. Click the Layout tab then click the Page. Create a new blank document in Word. Click 'File,' then select 'Page Setup.' In the Page Setup dialogue box, set the paper size to match the size of the paper with which you intend to print your booklet.

3. These instructions work for 'perfect' binding, where each sheet is separate. Folded or stitched binding is another whole kettle of fish, for which you will need a proper imposition program. I have never seen a free one.

Note: If your printer does not feed as described, it is not impossible to adapt this recipe with a little experimentation. Use tricks like marking the paper in the input tray with penciled arrows and sheet numbers on each pass.

Preparation (optional, but recommended)

Create a custom template with even and odd headers, mirrored margins and a small gutter (extra space on the inside to accommodate the binding wires, glue or whatever). Then base your document on the template.

Make sure your document will print as a single file. Test with print to PDF. Some section breaks will split the output into separate files. You are dead in the water if that happens.

Numbered pages are very useful, especially if you drop the paper stack half way through.

Production Steps

1. Print from Word with these settings from the print dialog panel.

• Paper handling — Even pages only
• Output options — Print to file — Postscript (call the file something like 'booklet evens')

2. Print again from Word with these settings.

• Paper handling — Odd pages only
• Output options — Print to file — Postscript (call the file something like 'booklet odds')

3. Forget Word now. Open 'booklet evens.ps' in Preview.

4. Print from Preview with these settings from the print dialog panel.

• Layout — 2 pages per sheet, print order 2-1
• Paper handling — 'Reverse page order' checked

5. Take the paper off the output tray, and without any turning, flipping or shuffling, put it all back in the input tray.

6. Open 'booklet odds.ps' in Preview.

7. Print from Preview with these settings.

• Layout — 2 pages per sheet, print order 1-2
• Paper handling — 'Reverse page order' unchecked

8. Guillotine the A4 to make two heaps of A5.

9. Merge the two heaps page by page, turning one over from each pair.

10. Bind and trim.

Notes

This sequence — printing the evens in reverse before printing the odds forward — seems to free you from worry about the number of pages being divisible by four and saves shuffling the paper between the two printing passes.

Printing as postscript in print from Word stops it trying to outsmart you, and as a bonus, works around the 'mis-feature' that prints your EPS logo art from the preview bitmap when you want it to print from the high resolution graphic file.

It helps to have a meaty guillotine (a.k.a paper cutter). I have done 400 page books with this recipe, and chopping through 100 sheets in a single pass is most satisfying. Knowing that you have saved 300 sheets of A4 and produced something that is a pleasure to hold is pure bonus.

How To Print Booklet In Word For Mac

It is worthwhile getting your styles ready for the reduction in size. Your readers expect smaller type on a smaller page, but don't strain their eyes. I use 14pt Adobe Garamond on 16pt leading (the space between lines of text) for my body style. The resulting 7pt font on 8pt leading looks okay on A5 for technical manuals. You might choose to go a little larger for a novel, or if there are footnotes you actually expect to be read.

Don't forget your major section boundaries should start on odd pages, and that odd pages are always on the right of each spread. Word handles blank pages at the end of chapters well. Managing your odd and even running heads with the section specification is probably the subject of another note.

Alternatives

There are freeware and shareware applications available that can be helpful for booklet printing as well. Example:

Cheap Impostor: Shareware; speedy; a new version – as of May 2007 – allows for 'creep' (pages near the outside have their outer margins too far from the edge of the paper); comes in both US and A4 versions. The newest version even
compensates for the printer margins being slightly out of spec. A neat feature of Cheap Impostor is that it will prepare 'signatures' for longer publications. Signatures are individually folded subsections that are later stacked and bound. The manual includes some binding hints.

Unfortunately there is no way in the Mac OSX print dialog to automatically create a booklet. There used to be a free app called ‘Create Booklet’ but the free version broke with the release of Mojave. You can do it manually bit it is fairly complex and time consuming. This article outlines the 2 options: the easy way (paid) and the hard way (free.)

The easy way – paid.

There are plenty of Apps that will create a booklet for you.

The cheapest is a brand new app simply called ‘Booklet.’ It’s $1.49 in the Mac App store, and to me that’s abbot the right price for a booklet making app. (It’s not a complicated task.) You can purchase booklet from the App Store here. I’ve been using it for a few days and it seems to be OK.

Another option is ‘Create Booklet,‘ available for $19.95 from the Mac App Store. I have been using it for years and it is reliable and easily accessible from the print menu when you go to print a document. (There used to be a free version but it no longer works in Mojave).

Another paid option is booklet creator available for $30. It allows you to print a booklet up to 8 pages for free.

A third option is cheap imposter for $35.

Adobe Acrobat Pro (also paid) has an option to create a booklet in its print dialog.

The hard way – free!

If you are only doing this once, have plenty of time or like a challenge then you can create a booklet manually using Preview. This will give exactly the same result as the above applications. The OSX print dialog can do the hardest bit – rotating 2 pdf pages, shrinking them, and putting them together onto 1 page. But the order will be all wrong for a booklet. So all you need to do is rearrange the pages and then send it to the printer as 2 pages per sheet.

Step 1: Insert blank pages to bring the number of pages to a multiple of four.

You need to add some blank pages to the booklet out so that it has a multiple of 4 pages. (The booklet needs to be 4 pages, 8 pages, 12 pages, 16 pages etc.) You can do this in Preview with the ‘Insert – Blank Page’ (Found in the Edit menu.)

Step 2: Manually rearrange the pages of the pdf file into the right order for a booklet.

You need to rearrange the pages to be in the right order to make a booklet. This is the order you need:

4 pages: 4,1,2,3.

8 pages: 8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5.

16 pages: 16,1,2,15,14,3,4,13,12,5,6,11,10,7,8,9.

Can you see the pattern?

The pattern is Last, first x2, last x2, first x2 , last x2 etc.

In practice the way to do this is: Grab the Last page then delete it, grab the First page then delete it, grab the new first page then delete it, grab the last Page x2 etc until all the pages are gone.

I find the easiest way to do this is as follows:

1. Open the pdf in preview.
2. View thumbnails.
3. Drag Last page of this pdf to desktop to make a new document. Delete last page from original document.
4. Open new document in Preview and view thumbnails.
5. Drag first page of original document into end of new document. Delete it from original.
6. Drag new first page from original into new document. Delete it.
7. Drag last page of original. Delete it.
8. Drag last page of original. Delete it.
9. Drag first page. etc till no pages left.

You can now select ‘Save to pdf’ to make a new pdf file of the booklet, or you can print the booklet directly to your printer.

Step 3: Shrink, rotate & combine the pages into a booklet.

This sounds complicated but OS X can foo it automatically. Yes – OS X can do the most complicated part it just can’t do the simple part of rearranging the pages!

How To Print A Booklet In Word For Mac 2011

To combine the pages into a booklet go to ‘Print’ the document and then select these 3 options under ‘Layout’:

Print A Booklet In Word

• ‘2 Pages per sheet’
• ‘Two-Sided’
• ‘Short-Edge binding’

How To Print A Booklet In Word For Mac 2011

If you have selected all three options you can either ‘Print’ directly to the printer, or a safer option is to select ‘Save to pdf, save it as a new pdf booklet, then print this booklet using preview.