InDesign. Paginating etc for a Calendar

Submitted by ireid on Wed, 2008-10-29 12:43.

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Hi Guys

I'm doing a calendar that's saddle stitched but folds from top to bottom. i.e the Calendar hangs from a hole in the top and each month flips up. The Main visual is on the top half of the fold and the month is on the bottom. I would like to lay this out in InD BUT I don't know how to set up the initial document so that when I re-paginate each visual lines up with each month when its bound in the centre.

Are you getting this? lol good, because I don't know if I'm explaining myself correctly.

Can anyone help?

The specs are
28pages + Cover
26” x 12” Open, 13” x 12” Folded
Saddle Stitched and Punched to hang

thanks

BTW this is for a 2009 and well that's RAPIDLY approaching. . .lol so its a bit urgent . . . thanks again!

hope this helps

Submitted by walks_in2_trees on Wed, 2008-10-29 19:34.

prepress at the printing co will paginate it as it should be and make sure any crossover pgs line up, but you can make it easier for them like this (this is assuming a "digital" prepress)

make it the proper size and orientation and provide bleed (usually 1/4" bleed") if needed, full page images should bleed to be trimmed off. ask the printing co for specifics, every co has thier own rules based on press tolerances, prepress software, and exp of their prepress employees.

do it in reading order (the cover might be better as a seperate file depending on how it's designed):

cvr1 (pg1)should be the outside front cover
cvr2 (pg2)the inside front cover(possibly january photo)
pg3 January calendar,
pg4 feb photo
pg5 feb calendar
etc...
pg31 inside back cover
pg32 outside back cover

pagination shouldn't be any other way unless you want to print it yourself 2-up on your laser printer and stitch it yourself with a deep throat stapler, and even then most apps like Acrobat have a "book printing" option so you won't need to reorder the pages manually for that either

I can do a more detailed description of how to layout saddle books manually, but it depends on the press-sheet size and how many pages per sheet, most shops print 8-16 pgs per sheet (2sides), and still others 32 or more.

UPDATE!

Submitted by ireid on Tue, 2008-12-02 15:26.

Hi Ok. I found a great resource on the net. This forum was PART of the answer:

http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-19989.html

Then I copied the script from here:

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bbd4bb6

And used it. Once it created a rotated facing page document I used InBooklet to set up two-up saddle stitching in a new document (this only exists in CS2 indy kiddies!) and then I had to adjust the "placed pdf" artwork that the script created so that there were no "overlaps" across the spreads and VOILA! Spreads created for a horizontal bound calendar.

The printer never called to say that the file was badly done or anything and the client signed off the proofs last week.

I'm waiting for the final print to be delivered.

Thanks for the advice Walks-in2-trees it helped me figure out what the script was going to do ultimately.

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