Artist's Crash Course: Booklet Printing in InDesign

There are a lot of artists out there that make good money at conventions selling sketchbooks and minicomics printed from their desktop printers. All it takes is Letter-sized sheets of paper and a stapler.

The trick is organizing the pages so they are in the right order when you staple and fold your book down the middle (that's called 2-Up Saddle Stich binding). Unfortunately, artists that don't know about InDesign's booklet printing will often do that page reorganizing (imposition) process by hand in Illustrator or Photoshop as separate documents for each spread.

You don't have to do that! You can quickly lay out your booklet in InDesign and have it prepare a single PDF file for you, with the imposition taken care of automatically.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• InDesign
• tutorial
• howto
• art
• ashcan
• minicomic
• booklet
• printing

[mkenzio]

is there a way to do "tabloid-half" when setting up a document??

[glenmoyes]

@mkenzio Yup, just select Letter for the size. Tabloid-half and Letter are the same thing.

[angelazavere]

cool ! : ) thanks a lot

[ThePlette]

This is very helpful, thanks a lot.

[latina2025]

Thanks for this video tutorial! It was very helpful. Had no idea InDesign had a shortcut to Photoshop to edit images. And great step by step process explaining about booklet print and how to save it. This video this definitely be added to my favorites. : ]

[Digaas]

I don't have the Adobe PDF preset, or the Adobe Destiller. Can you help me? Thank you!

[johnbuhril]

Hi

I have one question. You delete the first page no. by placing NONE page over it and our page no.actually start from 2, but incase we want to have it from one(page1) how can we make page 2 to be 1 and the rest to follow accordingly?

Thanks for the video.

[512akiko]

if you klick "w" you see also the preview ;)

but thank you so much for this vid!

[xfileshyd]

Thank you very much. Very practical onpage flow. You have covered the most important aspect which is page flow which many of the other users did not. You rock!