PDF booklet printing
The pages reordered so a stack of sheets folds into a booklet.
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Example
A 10-page A4 PDF folded into an A5 booklet: which pages share a sheet
A club newsletter of 10 A4 pages, to be printed as an A5 booklet. Sheet: “A4 landscape (A5 booklet)”, binding left, one fold, margin 5 mm. Ten is not a multiple of four, so two blank pages make it up to twelve.
| A4 sheet | Front: left | right | Back: left | right |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | blank (12) | 1 | 2 | blank (11) |
| 2 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
Six printed sides on three sheets: print double-sided, flipping on the short edge, fold the stack and staple through the fold. Page 1 is the cover; pages 11 and 12, the inside and outside of the back cover, are blank. Each A4 page is scaled to 138.5 × 195.9 mm to keep the 5 mm margin — with no margin it is exactly A5.
How it works
- Add the PDF. Any number of pages: it is padded out to a multiple of four with blanks.
- Choose the sheet. A4 landscape gives an A5 booklet, A3 gives an A4 one.
- Choose the binding side — right for a book read right to left.
- Print double-sided, flipping on the short edge, then fold the stack and staple through the fold.
Frequently asked questions
- Why is the page order so strange?
- Because that is what folding does. When you fold a stack of sheets down the middle, the first and last pages end up on the same side of the same sheet. The order here is worked out for you, which is the part that is easy to get wrong by hand.
- Should I flip on the long edge or the short edge?
- The short edge. The sheets are landscape, and short-edge flipping keeps the back of each sheet the right way up.
- What paper do I need for an A5 booklet?
- A4, turned landscape: two A5 pages side by side on each side of the sheet. A3 gives an A4 booklet, B4 a B5 one, Letter a half-letter one. “Twice the page” puts an A4 PDF on an A3-size sheet, for an A4 booklet.
- My booklet is thick and the middle pages stick out. What can I do?
- Set a number of pages per fold — 16, say. The booklet is then made of several thinner folded sections, each stapled or sewn and gathered in order, which is how a thick book is bound.
- What if the page count is not a multiple of four?
- Blank pages are added at the end: a 10-page PDF becomes 12, and pages 11 and 12 — the inside and the outside of the back cover — stay blank. If the last page of your PDF should be the back cover, add the blank pages in your file before it.
- Is my PDF uploaded?
- No. The pages are rearranged and placed on the new sheets in your browser; the file is not sent anywhere.