About Sharon MacGregor Expertise I use Indesign on a daily basis for work, and at home in my more creative ventures. I can answer pretty much any type of question relating to production, design, page layout, and new features of CS3. I work on a PC (yes I know that is rare), so I am more familiar with the PC commands than mac, but I know that more often than not, the Ctril button on the PC is the same as the command button on the Mac, so they are the same!
Experience I've been working in this field since 1988. Started out when they were still doing pasteup and using a wax machine :) Have worked on both Mac and PC on several programs, but my present employer uses PCs and I bought a PC for home so I could work at home. Right now, I work on educational/technical textbooks. I have experience with magazines, newspapers, corporate identity, page layout, and general design.
Education/Credentials I have a BA in psychology with a minor in art, and am working towards an MA in Learning and technology integration (using computers to teach).
Question I am wanting to create a book out of two separate documents. I can use the book function to get it to number the pages but I want to print out a sample and have the pages imposed how they are supposed to be. Using the print booklet function will only print out one document at a time and I want it to use both documents. Do you know of any way to print both documents as one book with the pages imposed?
Answer I've never combined this with the print booklet function, but you can try making an indesign book file, and then adding your two documents to it, then applying the print booklet function to both files in your book file. File>New> hen choose book file, you will see a dialog box come up, you can choose add file, and add both of your book files into that dialog box. Then if you can, select both files and then go to File>print booklet. It's only a guess since i've never done it.... so let me know if it works!
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Otherwise, I think you would have to print both books using the print booklet function as PDFs and then combine them in Acrobat. You would start the page numbering of the second document in Indesign where the first book ended, PDF it and then you could combine the two PDFs.
