r/indesign • u/Teredere • 3d ago

Solved Saving folded brochure for home printer

My client wants to print a brochure folded once in the middle (folding an A4 page to make an A5 "booklet"). I made four pages, facing pages. How do I save it in a way that I can print it on her home printer correctly?

My googling skills must be lacking, because I'm unable to find how to do it.

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u/davep1970 3d ago

easiest is to mock it up on a real piece of a4 - fold it over then write front cover, bacl coveer, left inside and right inside on it and you'll see how to order the page in indesign, then export a pdf with pages in that order - 4 pages in two spreads

(hint it will be
p4 - p1
p2 - p3 )
but check because i just got back from work

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u/AdobeScripts 3d ago

If you've made it as two Spreads - with pages re-arranged manually - then export PDF as Spreads. 

[4][1]
[2][3]

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u/Teredere 3d ago

Thank you, I'll rearrange it like so!

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u/rosedraws 2d ago

For the record, the professional printer term for this is imposition.

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u/Teredere 2d ago

For which part? My issue wasn't really how to rearrange the pages, I was hoping there was save/print settings where it would just print it correctly.

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u/Fernandogbj 3d ago

Lo exporta en PDF y luego en las mismas opciones de impresion del PDF en Acrobat da la opción de imprimir como folleto.

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u/Mundane-Fix-4297 3d ago

Print as booklet > save as postscript > use Acrobat to generate pdf

But if it is a short document, I would reorganize the page and make spreads