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Raul Herrera

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Aug 3, 2024, 3:47:33 PM8/3/24

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Take a look at the screenshot attached. I've manually done the impositioning on all 16 pages, and I want it to print front to back for the booklet that I will staple together. The problem Is illustrated in the screenshot where I'm trying to print the booklet, however it's not printing page 16 next to page 1. For some reason, it prints page 16 on one spread, then prints page 1 on another. All other spreads seem to print as expected.

Why would it do this even though I've laid it out accordingly? I've tried looking in Document Setup, searched Youtube a bunch of times, and am not finding anything. I'll also attach the original Affinity Publisher 2 file so that someone can hopefully tell me what I'm doing wrong. I really (REALLY) want to leave the world of Adobe behind, but this is something I could've banged out in InDesign in no time flat. Hoping it's just some simple setting and not a bug in Affinity Publisher 2, otherwise it's back to the 800lb Gorilla for me. Let me know what you find! Thanks in advance for your help.

Whereas since you did the page numbering manually for imposed page arrangement it doesn't make sense at all to use the "Booklet" print option. Now you want the pages printed as the spreads as in the layout, therefore the "N-up" option works, with 2 pages horizontally:

@CatshillThank you. I will try that as a last resort, however I'm wanting to see if Publisher can handle it first.
@Oufti Thank you. This actually printed in the correct order, however since my pages are smaller than a normal sheet folded in half, I ran into trouble with the pages being too far apart. For example folding the page in half leaves each page floating in the middle of the larger half-page area.
@thomaso Thank you. These both are viable options and I was able to validate them with my simple dummy mock. I appreciate you explaining with your screenshots because it gave me a clear blueprint to follow.

I'm grateful to you all for walking me through your processes. I'll print the booklet out and take a picture of it at some point so that you can see how it turned out. Thanks again for the assist. You guys rock!

It's important to use the right PPD. If you are sending it direct to the Xerox C70 that's the right PPD. But you aren't. Your "device" is Distiller, so use the Distiller PPD. There may be other issues, but it's entirely possible that the Xerox PPD sets page size in a way that is private to Xerox and Distiller doesn't see.

It doesn't matter a bean if you're making a PDF for later printing to the C70; the immediate device would be Distiller and no other device dependent stuff (except possibly halftone info) can survive distilling.

I redommend to avoid the function Print booklet. t is a crap and it uses also PostScript. It was never useful and as a designer, why do you really need it? The printer should do the imposing and not the designer. If you really need it on a regular basis, invest in a plugin for Acrobat and do it there,

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I don't think I've ever seen a case where this wasn't due to using the wrong page flip direction in the duplexer settings, which are inthe print driver setup. Whatever you've fot selected now, choose the other one. DIfferent printers use differerent names for the settings, but they all do the same thing, either flip around the long edge of the paper or flip around the short edge. There just aren't any other possibilities.

When you say some of the pages is it random pages or is it all the back are upside down (or the fronts, for that matter)? If all your back pages are upside down, it's clearly a setting. If you're printing head to head, try printing head to foot or vice versa.

If it is only a few pages it can't really be settings... the duplex setting refers to the whole book. Maybe you have used the wrong imposition and the number of pages in a flat is incorrect. Does the book have placed EPS or PDF's?

The language can seem seem counterintuitive. My digital printer uses the term front and rear for pulling a sheet. And even weirder, if front is the top of the sheet, rear is the side of the sheet when one would think it's the bottom. I'm constantly choosing front when I need rear and entering a positive # when I need a negative # when trying to align the back of a sheet to the front. Usually takes me a good 5-10 test sheets before I get good registration.

Same here. I figured it had to be some kind of setting because the first print was perfect. But I needed to make some editing changes next think you know I had one side good one side upside down. I'm relived.

The flip edge refers to the edge of the sheet in the printer, not the page in the layout. When you impose your booklet your portrait oriented "long" edge of your document page is now parallel to the short edge of the printer sheet.

My Canon MP560 has no phrase " flip short edge". In the Duplex Printing & Margin settings set the Print Area as "use reduced printing" and the Stapling Side as "short-side stapling (TOP). Even though we are using same language each device/user has own interpretation.

yea I am now pretty sure this is my issue. I have to print out 400 booklets 20 pages. This was soo help full because I was thinking flip short edge meant the book would print like a card that opened from the bottom.. made no sence.

same problems - easily solved in the end by ignoring any options in the Adobe print manager - just print normally, full page and use the printer driver settings to select: booklet printing; left edge binding; duplex -

I was exporting mine as PDF from InDesign as well, and had one page randomly doing this too.

I tracked it down to one image on that particular page which had been rotated 90 degrees. I un-rotated it and it worked.

Something to add...I was having the same issue. I tried "flip along short" and "flip along long" edge, both producing the same result. I closed the file, quit Acrobat, and re-started the program. The next attempt worked. The old turn it off and turn it back on trick works again!

If you are using an HP Officejet (mine is the OfficeJet Pro 8600) when you bring up the printer dialog box in Acrobat Reader and select booklet, you must check the box next to "Auto-rotate pages within each sheet". This will make the back sides of each sheet print right-side up.

I just spent hours and loads of paper on this, looked at all the help pages here and elsewhere, tried updating printer driver. Discovered it was printing back side in PDF booklet upside down on two printers (Brother mono laser and Epson Expression). I tried all the settings I could find. Someone somewhere said set it to print in portrait not landscape, and Voilla! It worked. Why did it take me hours and hours to find this and why don't the Adobe guideless specify this upfront? I was already saying bind on short edge. Tried checking "automatically rotate pages." Nothing worked until setting print setting to portrait rather than landscape.