Printers' Spreads
3dogmama (1991 pencils) | Wed, 2009-05-27 01:56Does anyone here do up their artwork in printers' spreads in InDesign? I am not aware of InDesign's full capabilities yet, so if there's a chronological method of presenting my design work I'd rather go that route. It's difficult for my clients to envision without printing out proofs. And sometimes things can get a little snaky for me too when I'm working on an intense, complicated layout.
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i'm not sure what you're asking.
in indesign, set up your document with facing pages to view printer spreads as you design. to print with printer spreads, click on "spreads" on the general tab in the print dialog.
i suspect i'm not answering your question, tho.
Thank you. I was still laying out 12-1 / 2-11 / 10-3 etc. and of course it was confusing as hell for my clients when proofing my PDFs. I don't even want to know how long we've been able to do that with software...wish I had more time to learn the bloody programs. Everything is always on the fly.
Cheers.
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cool. glad that did fix it for you.
there's also a way to be able to set up multi-page spreads. so you could have a 3 page spread or a 6 page spread (for a multi-panel layout).
Hardly any printer worth a grain of salt requires you to actually build your pages in printers spreads anymore. Software RIPs they use are perfectly capable of reordering the pages in the pagination process - whether you use single pages or readers spreads.
If you have a 12- page booklet, just create 12 single pages. OR, if your design requires images/text/graphics to cross over the pages, use the Spreads option in the page setup box. That way, you can send a PDF proof as readers spreads or as single pages (whichever is easiest for your client to deal with).
Building your document using printers spreads is about as archaic as it gets anymore - it's about the same as a printer asking you to actually place 8 business cards up on a page for them. It just tells you that they're running ancient equipment and have no clue as to how to do things properly, and easily.
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Holy s*@t, batman. They DO ask me to set cards 8-up on a sheet...
I know I'm going to cringe, but how long have printers been using this outputting technology?
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it's been pretty common for at least a decade. imposition software has been around for a long time.
As gwells stated, it's been quite a while. I was using imposition software on our RIP back in 1997. Every modern RIP sold in the last 10+ years has the capability to impose a single document page in practically any "n-up" configuration. If they didn't, we would still have stripping departments duping, cutting and taping negatives together to burn plates.
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Worse comes to worse send along a printed proof of that printer spread put together as it will be printed. Staple that sucker and then they'll see it in sequential order. :D
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should always do that anyway. i always build printers proofs, if at all possible.
Building in printer's spreads really limits you design wise (or makes things complicated) when you are dealing with images across spreads or last minute page additions/subtractions. Don't do that to yourself. Use the print booklet function.
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you misunderstand. i didn't say i built in printer spreads. i said i built printers proofs.
i.e., i mock up my final and give a copy of that to the printer so there are no misconceptions of how i expect the book to paginate and lay out.
Always design in readers spreads of course. (1,2) (3,4) etc.
But you can make a PDF in literally one step that automatically switches it to printers spreads and it can even allow for creep and loads of other things.
In Indesign. File > Print Booklet and its all in there!
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