Have you ever tried to print a booklet using Adobe reader? I happen to have a Cannon Image runner 5000 with a duplexer attachment, and a lot of legal size paper. I tried and tried to get a textbook to print in the booklet format on my legal paper. The PDF is letter size. It kept leaving a huge margin around the page, and it shrunk the letter size print to an almost unreadable size. But, after hundreds of tries, I finally tricked it and got rid of all the white space and made my page fill up the legal size paper.
Go to File -> Print Setup
Under Paper make sure you have the following selected:
Size: Legal
Source : Drawer 3 (Or the source of your legal size paper)
Under Orientation: Landscape
Click Properties and make the following selections:
On the Page Setup tab:
Page size: Legal
Output Size: Legal
Orientation: Portrait
On the Finishing tab:
Print Style: Booklet Printing
On the Paper Source tab:
Select By: Paper Source
Paper Selection: Same paper for all pages
Paper Source: Drawer 3 (Or the source of your legal size paper)
Click OK
To print your file, go to File -> Print
Print Range: All
Pages: 1 to ## (Where ## indicates the last page of your booklet)
Page Handling:
Page Scaling: None
Auto-Rotate and Center: checked
Choose Paper Source by PDF page size: checked
Click OK to print
The preview will be an 8.5 x 11 and the image will fill the page. But when you print you will get your entire legal size page filled with 2 letter size pages per side.
If your booklet is larger than 15 pages, you should divide the booklet into sets that you can fold up, staple, and then staple those sets together. Otherwise its really hard to fold 35 page in half without it looking like crap. If you look at a book binding, you’ll see that this is the technique they use too.
On the Finishing tab, select Booklet button under Print style. Select the “Divide into Sets” radio button. Select the # of pages you want per set (12 is a good number).
Happy Printing!
Paul Ulrich
1/10/2008
Leonard
Leonard Rosenthol
PDF Standards Architect
Adobe Systems