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How to print a PDF as a booklet

Turn a normal PDF into folded, stapled booklet pages, and fit several pages onto one sheet for handouts.

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Programs, zines and short manuals look far more finished as a folded booklet than as a stack of stapled sheets. The trick is the page order, which Booklet PDF handles for you.

How booklet imposition works

In a folded booklet, the first and last pages share one side of the outer sheet, the second and second-to-last share the other side, and so on. Booklet PDF rearranges pages into that order two-up on each sheet, adding blank pages if the count is not a multiple of four.

Printing it

  1. Create the booklet file and open it.
  2. Print double-sided, flipping on the short edge.
  3. Fold the stack in half and staple along the fold.

Several pages per sheet

For handouts that do not need folding, N-up PDF places 2, 4 or more pages on each sheet in reading order. Use Add Margins first if content runs close to the edge and the printer would clip it.

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