WHAT IS DESIGN FOR PRINT?//MAC SUITE SESSION FIVE//OUGD504

MAC SUITE SESSION FIVE:
Saddle stitch layout:
facing pages, eight pages, 3mm bleed all the way around

The spreads laid out are refereed to as readers spreads- what you see on screen is how it will appear printed.  Exact pages will not be printed on the same page, when its trimmed folded and bound it will make a book.  To quickly calculate what pages will go together inDesign will lay it out for us.  Ways in which you can see the final out come before making the actual book: make a mock up, create a small mock up on paper numbering the pages to see what pages will next to each other.  For you to be able to double check so that inDesign has reordered your pages correctly,you can make a chart with two columns, one left and one right, starting on the right hand column write 1 for page one, then go diagonally across to the left column and keep zig zagging until the correct amount of pages are put into the right order:

L               R

8               1

2               7

6               3

4               5

Double click on master page to display the master page:

When the master page is displayed you can create something on the master page and it will automatically appear on all the pages of your document.  Things you can put on your master page to reappear:

• text frames
• graphic frames
• text 
• images 
• colour

As you can see the box has appeared on every page of the document:

You can create a new master page by clicking on the little drop down box on the box with 'pages, layers and links' click on the drop down menu and click 'new master' then a box will appear named 'new master' where you will be given the option to rename 'prefix' and name, you then click OK.

All pages on your book will have automatic page numbers, to create this you go to the 'type' tab the top of the page, insert special characters>markers:

PRINTING BOOKLET:

Go to file>print booklet, then a window will appear with print booklet, this is where you can change the booklet type 2-up Saddle Stitch, 2-up perfect bound, 2-up consecutive.

On the options section in the window it gives you the chance to tick 'print blank pages' you should tick this

 On this print window on the left hand side there is a list of options including, general, setup, marks and bleeds, output, graphics, colour management, advanced and summary.  Click on set up in order to change your paper size and orientation:

 page position should be centred:

 In the 'marks and bleeds' setting it gives you options to tick crop marks, bleed marks etc.

select 'short-edge binding'

Double sided printing: 'Printer' options then 'layout' options, the two sided option is at the bottom, select short edge binding.

POSTSCRIPT:

PostScript is what your digital file is turned into and used when sending something off to print.  It is like a PDF file.

We will use the Adobe PDF, this allows us to create a postscript to A0 and in between.  You should be able to see your document ready to print in A2 including crop marks.  Save this and now you should be able to open in preview when double clicking.  Now open Adobe Distiller, choose the setting that you need, we press quality and then can drag the postscript file into the area.

USING ISSUU

Save your PDF as the smallest file size and embed the publication.