The Multi-page Booklet Project
Prints Out of Order
Unfortunately, the Broderbund programmers have left it up to YOU to know how to manually order four pages of content on a single sheet of paper.
(You would have to spend an additional hundred dollars for a program that can auto page order a multi-page booklet, such as MS Publisher.)
There are some ready-made 8 page booklets in the Project Gallery. Notice how the page numbering "jumps" around? That's the way it must be so that when you fold your double-sided sheets, the pages will read in sequential order. So just add your content in the same order as those numbered pages.
Here is the easy solution to making your booklet: Get the people at a copy shop to do it. It's easy because today's state-of-the-art copiers can scan in pages and then spit out the content as a double-sided, folded booklet that is stapled in the middle.
All you have to provide is your content printed on regular letter size paper, single-sided, in page number order. The copier will scan those papers and auto-reduce the size so that four pages will print on one sheet (two pages on each side of the sheet). The copier will also print those pages in such a way that when you fold the sheets in half, the page numbering is correct.
Bonus: You'll save money making copies at the store rather than using your inkjet printer.
Tip: Since your letter size pages will be reduced to fit a booklet, make your font size and graphics a little larger to compensate. Use a newsletter project.
