About Dawn Douglas Expertise I can answer most questions about Microsoft Publisher.
Experience I have been using Microsoft Publisher for 11 years. I started with Adobe InDesign and Pagemaker. I like Microsoft Publisher for it's ease of use.
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I have a publisher booklet which effectively is 2 A5 pages in a landscape page
I want to convert it to pdf
I use primo pdf
But because the publisher is in booklet form and it has a clever knack of printing the pages to get the numbers right
thanks for your help
regards
alan
When it converts I get a pdf of page 1 next to page 16
page 2 next to 15 etc
Any bright ideas on how to solve this?
ANSWER: Hi Alan,
Printing booklets in sequence always present a challenge. I'll see if I can come up with something that might work for you. However I need a bit more information.
I need to make sure I understand what you have done in order to attempt to answer your question. Let me re-state what I think you are saying, and if I am correct please reply so that I can attempt to find a resolution to your problem.
I believe you are saying that you used the A5 page option size in landscape to create a booklet.
First question: How many pages are there all together?
Did you divide the A5 page into two pages front and back using guidelines or did you use the custom page option to print as a booklet?
Is it your desire to print the pages consecutively meaning in the PDF your want page 1, 2, 3, 4 etc...one page on each page of the PDF?
Could you live with changing the page size from A5 to A4?
If you can give me a bit more detail I might be able to help you.
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QUESTION: Hi Dawn,
In Publisher : page set up: in Layout tab: Publication type :
I selected the item "Booklet" and
the radio button for landscape.
It has width 14.853cm height 20.989cm.
The booklet comprises 16 pages.
All I am trying to achieve is to have a pdf that can be read and viewed on screen like the printed booklet would be when the pages are folded i.e. with consecutive pages 1,2 3, 4 etc..
I currently get (by default) with the booklet option chosen, 2 pages on 1 landscape page but don't mind if it is 1 A5 page per 1 A4 page.
As it is now because I get 2 pages of A5 on the landscape
page I end up with the pdf file printing like the normal booklet prints so that I only get consecutive pages displayed by folding the paper in half. To achieve this it prints pages 1 and 16, 2 and 15 etc. together instead of pages 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 as would normally be viewed.
The Publisher programme renders the booklet pages to the monitor screen consecutively 1, 2, 3 , 4 etc but prints as 1 and 16 and so on.
If you give me an email address I can send you the 16 page publisher file This will make clear what I am trying to describe rather poorly to you.
Thanks for your help.
Best regards
Alan
ANSWER: Good Morning Alan,
If you can zip the publisher file and send it to:
rejavanation@cox.net
I will take a look at it. I have a better understanding of what you are trying to do. I think I can solve your problem for you, but it would be helpful to test my theory on the actual file. Hopefully I will have an answer back to you quickly.
Very Respectfully,
Dawn
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QUESTION: thank you
i appreciate your help
will send you the file
Answer Good Evening Alan,
I did receive both the PDF and the Publisher file. I see exactly why you are having your difficulty.
First, when you use the booklet feature in Publisher there is no option to adjust how the book pages print. I am sorry that is the way the program is set up.
However, there is a step around that will allow you to print the pages in your booklet just as you like with very little editing on your part.
Here what I would advise.
1. Open your publisher document.
2. File>page setup.
3. Choose A4 Booklet in Landscape
4. Select View>Master Page> Delete the page numbers from the master page.
5. Close the master page view and select view two page spread
6. Drag a window over the contents on page 2 and group. Move page 2 to the left hand corner of the page. (If you want to use guide lines to keep the pages even do that). Drag a window over the contents of page three and group. Move it to the right hand corner of page two. So that you have pages 2 and 3s content on page two. You are creating a book without using the book fold.
7. Repeat the same thing, by place the content of the two pages on the one page until you get to the end of the page.
8. Take the content on the last page and drag a window over that content and copy it to the left side of page one. The two blue boxes show be next to each other.
9. Save to PDF and then you will see that your pages are in order, two pages per sheet and read to fold perfectly.
A few things to consider. If you have to copy linked text boxes, the test might not copy when you group the items. Just go back and copy and paste the text.
