Re: changing a book's page layout

["Dov Isaacs" <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Your printer / service bureau is making you do THEIR work. They
are asking you to do what is called imposition. You should NEVER
try doing this in FrameMaker. It is a royal pain in the butt to
hack around like this. Then what happens when you need to add pages
or make serious modifications?

Best way to proceed would be to keep your book as is in FrameMaker.
Create a PDF file with the 8.5x7 logical pages. In Acrobat, use the 
"Quite Imposing" plugin from Quite Software to impose these pages 
onto 8.5x14 sheets per your printer's specifications.

        - Dov

At 3/1/2001 01:20 PM, Mandy Wells wrote:
>Hello Framers
>I have to change my 8.5X7 double-sided FM book to a two-up layout to make
>the printer happy, unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be covered in my
>FrameMaker for Dummies. The pages need to be formatted like a book, so pg2
>and pg139 on the front of the first sheet, pg1 and pg140 on the back; pg4
>and pg 137 on the front of the second sheet, pg3 and pg138 on the back of
>the second sheet, etc...
>
>Is there some easy, automatic way of doing this in FrameMaker? 
>
>Not looking forward to cutting and pasting without Ctrl-C Ctrl-V,
>Mandy


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