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Typically
08-09-2006, 07:26 PM
So i'm doing a catalog at work it's going to be around 50 pages. The binding is going to be stapled. When i lay it out in indesign do i have to figure the page numbering myself or is indesing capable of doing that? Not the auto numbering but how the pages are ordered. do i have to put the second page with the second to last page on a spread? I remember doing this when i was in school when i did a booklet but that was like 3 years ago and i was using quark. so if you guys can help me out that would be sweet!
jlknauff
08-09-2006, 07:30 PM
Nope, unless you are handeling the printing in-house. When you send it to the printer, they will run it through impositioning software that will do all that.
jimking
08-09-2006, 07:36 PM
That's correct. Make them single pages in numerical order. What ever you do, do not make it 50 pages. Either 48 or 52 pages, use blanks if you have to.
jlknauff
08-09-2006, 07:42 PM
No, they don't have to be single pages - it's actually better to lay them out as spreads. To clarify Jim's statement on pages - it has to be divisable by 4. Also remember that your front cover, back cover, inside front cover and inside back cover will be all printed on the same sheet.
Typically
08-09-2006, 07:44 PM
so when you say single pages don't make them facing pages? it's going to be 48 pages. but why not 50 just curious?
jlknauff
08-09-2006, 07:45 PM
Yes, make them facing. That's why I said to lay it out as spreads.
Regarding the page count...if my explaination doesn't answer it for you, make a dummy (you should do this anyway).
so when you say single pages don't make them facing pages? it's going to be 48 pages. but why not 50 just curious?
Because each sheet of paper will have four pages on it. A saddle stitched (stapled in the middle) document has to have a total number of pages divisible by four. Unless you want blank pages. http://home.comcast.net/~rnick9/koolsmiley.gif
jimking
08-09-2006, 07:48 PM
No, they don't have to be single pages - it's actually better to lay them out as spreads. To clarify Jim's statement on pages - it has to be divisable by 4. Also remember that your front cover, back cover, inside front cover and inside back cover will be all printed on the same sheet.
Correct, what I mean is, if the pages are 8.5x11 keep'em that size with the pages together in numerical order but not 11x17 spreads. Like you said, the printer will impose.
Typically
08-09-2006, 07:48 PM
didn't see your reply when i replied. thanks a lot guys
jimking
08-09-2006, 07:59 PM
No, they don't have to be single pages - it's actually better to lay them out as spreads. To clarify Jim's statement on pages - it has to be divisable by 4. Also remember that your front cover, back cover, inside front cover and inside back cover will be all printed on the same sheet.
Also, you can run the covers seperately. If for example, you'd prefer to use cover stock for your cover and text stock for the text. You would still supply the printer with all your pages on the same file. The printer would print your cover seperate from the text. This will cost more, however.
Use Facing Pages in InDesign. The printer will sort the rest out (except, as Jim said, make sure you use 48 or 52 pages - multiples of 4).
Personally, I like to do the Front/Back cover and Inside Front/Back as a seperate spread in a seperate PDF. But that's just me... For small catalogues (up to 12 pages), I lay them out exactly as printed.
Typically
08-09-2006, 08:07 PM
Also, you can run the covers seperately. If for example, you'd prefer to use cover stock for your cover and text stock for the text. You would still supply the printer with all your pages on the same file. The printer would print your cover seperate from the text. This will cost more, however.
the cover will be different stock. so i should just setup a separate document for the cover? or do i just specify that it will be different stock?
Vikia
08-09-2006, 08:22 PM
I would set it up separately so that there is no confusion with a self cover book.
jimking
08-09-2006, 08:23 PM
You can make a different file or you can keep them together. It doesn't matter to me. But, if the files are together you'll need to be clear to the printer what covers 1,2,3,4 are in your file.
Typically
08-09-2006, 08:33 PM
alrighty i'll go the easy route and do it separately thanks for all the help!