My friend Dave has just moved across to a mac and he tells me that in Microsoft publisher you can use a booklet template to make a booklet. Publisher did this automatically. With Pages in OS X there is no such built in option to do this automatically, but there is a great little program called ‘create booklet’ that will do it for you when you go to print the document.
By booklet I mean A4 pages folded in half to make an A5 booklet that you staple in the middle. To do this all the pages need to be re-ordered, for example, page 8 goes near page 1, page 2 near page 7 and so on.
How To Make A Booklet In Word 2010 Mac How to make a book using Microsoft Word 2013 How to Format an Ebook for Kindle. Free, downloadable, professionally-designed layouts (and the ability to easily create your own), Print. Under the ‘Insert’ tab, select the ‘Header’ menu and click on ‘Edit Header.’ 2. Enter the title of your book or whatever text you would like to appear at the top of your pages.
You need to download a little program called ‘Create Booklet’ which will add an extra option to your printing window to allow you to do this.
You can download it directly here or you can try the original webpage here.
After you’ve downloaded it, Click on the ‘install- Create Booket PDF Service’
This will install an extra menu item in your printer menu to be able to print booklets.
After you’ve done this, go into Pages (or Microsoft Word or whatever program you are trying to print from) and select print, like you are going to normally print a document. But instead of pressing print (in the bottom right corner of the window) select the ‘PDF’ button in the bottom left of the window, and click on ‘Create Booklet’
Your document will automatically be made into a booklet.
It will open in a new window, and you can either ‘save’ it as a PDF file (to email to someone or print out later) or you can print it as a booklet to your printer.
You then need to select the ‘double sided’ box and select ‘short edge binding’ not ‘long edge binding’. Short edge binding means you want to fold the booklet along the shorter edge of the A4 page. If you select ‘long edge binding’ it will print ht back page upside down.
When you are designing a booklet, it will be printed smaller than usual. The A4 page you see on your screen will be printed on 1/2 an A4 page when you make a booklet, so you ‘ll make all the text a bit bigger than usual. Eg you may choose to use 18 point font instead of 12.
Note: There was an application called ‘Cocoa Booklet’ that used to do this but it doesn’t work in Snow Leopard, this is the new way of doing it.
Note: If you want to publish a book, and need a more professional binding solution try this program (it’s not free).
Create Booklet and El Capitan
Some people have reported that ‘ create booklet’ does not work with El Capitan. I can verify that it does work perfectly with El Capitan. If it’s not working can I suggest you try reinstalling it.
Also, I think there are two versions running around…
There is the paid version by ‘TheKeptPromise’ available from the Apple App store and from here, which is called “create booklet 1.2”. It costs $15. It may not work with El Capitan.
I can verify that ‘create booklet 1.1’, the free version by Christoph Vogelbusch does work with El Capitan. Last time I checked it was available from here.
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This doesn’t seem to work any more on El Capitan. Anyone got any solutions?
ReplyCarolyn Leyboldtsays:December 7, 2015 at 7:16 am
I have used this app in the past with great success. Then I upgraded to El Capitan:( When I did my December newsletter in Pages and selected Create booklet, it processed the pages but didn’t produce the booklet! Tried it a few times. Nada. Even repurchased the app and re-installed. Still nothing. Any suggestions? Page is version 5.6, Mac Capitan 10.11
ReplyCaitlinsays:January 10, 2016 at 10:35 am
I have just gone from PC to Mac, with Word II and found that none of my brochures open now – ALL my advertising is in this format. I spent a frustrating day writing a brochure on a Word Template that is tabloid in size, and so won’t print the text at the size I see it – only bits of it. Nothing works. We just put El Capitan on and I don’t know what to do now. I am livid that all today was wasted.
ReplyWaynesays:January 12, 2016 at 9:27 pm
Even though I hate Microsoft Word, I have found the compatibility between Microsoft Word on the Mac and PC to be exceptional. I haven’t had a file that has not come nicely into my Macintosh version of Word. So you might be doing something wrong. Have you got the latest version of office on your Mac? The version of Word that I currently have is version 15.15
ReplyKaysays:March 13, 2016 at 2:55 pm
Thank you so much for this app! If only I knew sooner of this app, I wouldn’t have gotten so much trouble for the past 3 years designing and printing my church’s annual report in booklet form. Working flawlessly with microsoft Word mac OS X 10.9
ReplyHarold Guenthnersays:May 7, 2016 at 8:46 am
What do I do if there is no short edge binding option? All of the steps you have provided here have helped tremendously, but when I open the print menu the only options are:
A4 A5 A5 Long Edge A6 B5 B6
And various other options that I know are wrong like “envelope” and “3 X 5” Advanced ip scanner for mac.
Thanks!
ReplyWaynesays:May 9, 2016 at 3:23 am
Short edge binding is a checkbox that appears after you select double sided printing. It is not a page size like A4.
Replymikesays:July 1, 2016 at 2:40 am
Hi ReplyWaynesays:July 1, 2016 at 5:09 am
Ive just installed the create booklet app on to my Mac with El Capitan. It works perfectly except…… when using the 2 sided function,pages 2 & 3 are printed upside down, 4 & 5 are printed right way up & 6 & 7 upside down and so on. What am I doing wrong, has anyone else experienced this?
Toggle the long-edge-binding or short-edge-binding option.
Replymikesays:July 2, 2016 at 6:57 am
Thanks Wayne,
Did that and now its printed out perfectly. I thought I had done that when I chose double sided printing so don’t know what went wrong, but alls well that ends well. archangelsays:July 11, 2016 at 1:43 am
Thanks for your help
Hi there, please could you help me?
I bought Create Booklet thinking it would make 4-up booklet in portrait, each page about 4.25 x 5.5 with borders at top of each page of .25, at bottom of each page .75, outside page edges .25, and gutter .45 or so for ea page.
But all I can get is 2 much larger pages side by side, landscape. [4 pages to an 8.5×11 page].
What I need are four pages on each side of paper sheet of 8.5×11 equalling 8 pages per 8.5×11 sheet.
Maybe this app doesnt do that?
For the two pages landscape front and back it is so easy, but they are too large for our projects.
I hope you can help this grandma.
Thank you in advance
ReplyWaynesays:July 11, 2016 at 2:54 pm
Create booklet cannot do that. Replyarchangelsays:July 11, 2016 at 7:51 pm
Instead, go to ‘Layout’ in the print dialog, then select “Pages per Sheet:” and choose 4, that might do what you are after.
thanks wayne, appreciate it. I tried it, and it does do it but the margins are hinky and the print even though set at 16, came out about 6pt.
Have to find a solution, but thanks for answering
Seleksays:July 14, 2016 at 9:45 am
What if I wanted to print on legal sized paper (8.5 x 14), not letter size? Do the same steps apply?
ReplyClass Booklets=Class Readings – lang(uage)leysays:February 2, 2017 at 4:34 pm
[…] THIS has been a great extension to have on my computer. Rather than trying to fumble to make all of my pages symmetrical and nicely lined up I just make regular 8.5×11 pages and save a booklet! […]
ReplyAdriansays:June 4, 2017 at 10:50 pm
Hey, I just want to thank you for this article. It is very useful indeed. I used MacBook with MS Word 2011 and tried to print a booklet on my own. Most tutorials explain well how to do it on MS Word 2007. But not for Mac users. I appreciate it very much. Now, I can even make a booklet using Pages instead of MS Word.
I tried installing the CreateBooklet1.1.dmg and go ahead print my documents, choose the create booklet option on PDF button on my print page. A while later a PDF document popped out on the Preview App. It’s just that I can’t figure out where that file is located?
So, I just exported the PDF file to create a new pdf file.
ReplySamsays:June 18, 2017 at 4:32 pm
createbooket seemed great at first but seems that it has issues re plugins for HP printers. HP laser jet pro is having a hard time recognising the create booklet pdf’s.
ReplyJimsays:October 11, 2017 at 5:34 am
I installed the Create Booklet plug in, but when I click on create booklet in the Print menu I get a pop up window that says processing, but then it disappears and does not appear in a new window. I assume a new file has been created, but I cannot find it. I am running MasOSX El Capitan with Microsoft Word for Mac 2011.
Any ideas?
ReplyGavinsays:April 17, 2018 at 9:48 am
I’m having the same issue, i cant find the PDF anywhere. Can anyone point me in the right direction.
Thanks! ReplySi Masays:May 15, 2018 at 11:57 pm
Gavin
The output is saved in the folder /tmp Bibisays:July 18, 2018 at 6:48 pm
There is an option in the File menu “Move To…”, clicking on it will create a dialog window to select a folder where you want to move it. Hope it would meet your requirement. :-) How To Create A Booklet In Word For Mac 2017
Hi, I’m using the new version of Create Booklet (https://itunes.apple.com/app/create-booklet-2/id1350225911) with El Capitan and with High Sierra and it works perfectly for me. Love the new Mini Booklet option and did some nice booklets for my niece. ?
Replybernard braunsays:October 13, 2018 at 6:04 am
I was having problems printing a booklet A5 size page onto A4 back and front – the pages printed upside down as you said -but was solved by your advice with the “short edged binding” ! Many thanks. Bernard
ReplyMarcia R Pecksays:December 14, 2018 at 11:24 am
We just installed OS Mojave at the church where I prepare the bulletin. Now, we can’t print the bulletin in the way we used to on v. 11. The Create Booklet option is available from the PDF drop-down menu, in Print, but no booklet appears on the desktop. I checked in /tmp files this morning and it’s not there. I was able to work around this problem for this week’s bulletin, but the pages did not collate. All the page 2s, 4s, 6s, etc. printed individually and I had to collate by hand. Help!
ReplyWaynesays:December 14, 2018 at 11:57 am
https://omegaever874.weebly.com/blog/flinto-for-mac. I’ve just written an article for you about this. Thanks for contacting me about it.
https://macintoshhowto.com/printing/is-create-booklet-broken-in-mojave.html
ReplyMarciasays:December 14, 2018 at 3:52 pm
Thank you, Wayne. This seems like a fairly simple solution, even for me, as a long-time Windows user. The transition to a Mac hasn’t been easy, but the pastor is skilled and he’s a patient teacher. I can’t wait to go to the office next week and try this solution. I’ll be sure to post my results.
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How to print a bunch of pages that you can fold in half and staple to create a booklet.
For a quick-and-easy booklet using standard letter paper:
My discussion here, if you choose to read it, explains what is going on in the booklet-making process, discusses your options for booklet programs, notes some possible pitfalls with duplex printing, and offers some cosmetic refinements. This is by no means an authoritative article, but recently I was helping someone develop a workflow for creating booklets, and here are the results of my experimentation.
Note: It is sometimes suggested using linked text boxes. It's much easier to use one of the booklet programs, especially if you are not already familiar with text boxes in MS Word. Text boxes can be complicated, and at least two of the booklet programs are free.
Problem
There are several issues involved in making booklets that are created by folding standard letter paper in half.
One: imposition. The pages need to be re-ordered so that folding in half produces the right order. This is called imposition, and a number of OS X programs have been developed specifically to take care of this (listed below).
Two: zoom. When you print two pages per sheet (also called 2-up) on a letter-size piece of paper, the text obviously needs to be shrunk. However, the proportions are different. So if you design two 8.5x11 pages, and print them 2-up, the half-piece is proportionally taller than the full-size piece, meaning you get extra blank margin at the top and bottom of the half-piece. To solve this issue, I used a custom page size of 5.5x8.5, instead of simply shrinking an 8.5x11 document.
Three: creep. If you are printing a very thick booklet, and folding it in half, you also need to worry about creep—the outside pages need a bigger gutter in the middle because they are being folded so thickly. I didn’t worry about this.
Now, my friends previously used PrintChef in OS 9, which would reorder the pages and also stretch the text to fill out that extra top/bottom margin. Unfortunately PrintChef has not been ported to OS X, and at this point, it seems unlikely that it ever will be. My task was to find a substitute for PrintChef, as running OS 9 was no longer a feasible alternative (apparently it keeps crashing the computer). ClickBook [Lene Fredborg, 4-Feb-2019: Removed outdated link to http://www.bluesquirrel.com/products/cbmac/] is another major booklet program, apparently quite sophisticated, but my friends have an equally sophisticated printer with a complicated duplex process that conflicted with ClickBook.
Instead, I turned to the three OS X booklet programs that I knew about.
The Booklet Programs
You will need to download and install at least one of these three programs. I wound up using CocoaBooklet, but all three of these programs work the same way. You generate a PDF file from whatever word processing program you choose, thus setting the page breaks. The booklet application takes the PDF file, shuffles around the existing pages, and shrinks them down to two pages per sheet, creating a new PDF booklet. You then print that PDF booklet from Preview.
Here are my impressions of these three programs. My tests were all done on 8-page booklets. I wasn’t particularly concerned with speed or with printing very large booklets, so if those are important to you, you should probably do your own testing. The programs are small to download (max 4MB) and easy to figure out.
BookLightning v. 1.5: BookLightning had fewer preferences than the other two programs, so less things the user could control, yet seemed to work just as well when I tested it on the 5.5x8.5 booklet. Might not work with certain duplex mechanisms, see next section. ($50; if you don’t request a free demo license, your test files will have a bright red line across them.)
Cheap Impostor 2.3: Excellent documentation. In fact, I wanted to pay for the advanced features just because the developer took the time to write such good help, including how to make your own book. However, Cheap Impostor in basic (free) mode shrank the custom page size too much, and I could not quite tell whether the advanced features would allow me to stretch the text on a shrunken regular page, though I thought they might. They would certainly have let me control for the smaller page size. The advanced features did promise to deal with creep, and in general, Cheap Impostor seemed to allow the user to control the most aspects of creating a booklet. (free basic version, $35 for advanced features.)
CocoaBooklet 1.3.3: CocoaBooklet had more options than BookLightning but fewer than Cheap Impostor. It worked very well for my purposes and offers an amazing amount of control for a free program. I decided it was the best choice for my needs. (Freeware, donations accepted.)
Notes
All three programs can be added as PDF Services, which means there would be a direct menu option under the Save as PDF icon/menu in the Print dialog for all programs, combining two of the necessary steps. The program documentation explains it better.
BookLightning automatically appends _book to the filename and saves the booklet in the same location as the original file. In CocoaBooklet and Cheap Impostor, you have the option of either automatically appending a suffix, or saving all booklets to a default location you set.
All testing done in Panther 10.3.9. Check the program’s webpage for Tiger compability.
How To Make A Booklet In Word 2010 MacDuplex PrintingHow To Make A Booklet In Word For Mac
You need to be a bit careful about duplex printing. If your printer flips paper along the short edge, then in the PDF booklet, all pages should be rightside up. If your printer flips pages along the long edge, then in the PDF booklet every other sheet of paper (showing two pages) should be upside-down. You may need to experiment to sort this out. Some duplex printers will let you choose short-edge or long-edge—either will be fine, just make sure that the setting matches the setting in the booklet program. Short-edge will be less counter-intuitive for you, as there will be no upside-down text.
If you don’t have a duplex printer, the way to handle it is to print all the odd pages of the PDF booklet, then flip them over and feed them back into the printer and print all the even pages. This is called manual duplex. All three programs have preferences to split the created booklet into odd and even pages, so that you can simply print two files instead of entering 1,3,5,7 into the page range, and then printing 2,4,6,8.
How To Make A Booklet In Microsoft Word For Mac 2011One Solution
Most of my booklet effort went into getting rid of the extra top/bottom margin caused by printing 2-up. If you don’t care about that, this becomes a lot simpler. Just create your file in Word as you normally would, with a regular paper size, and follow the instructions in your preferred booklet program.
Create the booklet in MS Word
Set your booklet up in MS Word, using a paper size that is half the size of a sheet of regular letter paper. By regular paper, I mean the US 8.5x11 inches size, often just called Letter, or A4, which is used in the rest of the world.
Blu ray player for mac. In most of the world, you can simply set the page size to A5, using File>Page Setup. In the US, you want 5.5x8.5 inches and that requires a custom paper size. To create a custom paper size in OS X, you need to open up TextEdit (or Pages), and create the custom paper size there. Save the custom size in TextEdit, and then all other applications will offer you the choice of that custom size in File>Page Setup.
Interestingly, certain printers grayed out the custom paper size and would not let me choose it. I’m not sure why, and it doesn’t matter anyhow, as you are not actually printing on that custom paper. In Word, you can format the document for Any Printer, if you want. Word uses the chosen printer driver to know what the printable area is, but you won’t actually be printing from Word.
Format the booklet as you like. I used margins of .35 all around. Sometimes if margins are too small, Word will cut off text, as the printer driver tells Word it can’t print that close to the edge. This is where formatting for a different printer may give different results. Also experiment with different settings for the header and footer margins. Use an appropriate text size for the final product—the pages will not change size when you convert them to a booklet.
Once set up, you might want to save the booklet as a template in MS Word. Use File>Save As, and in the dialog, change format to Document Template. Word will automatically change the location to your My Templates folder. To create more booklets in the future, use File>Project Gallery, select My Templates on the left, and select your booklet template. It’s fine to delete all of the text first.
Note: I actually also did all this in Apple’s Pages (version 1), because my friends thought they might want to put images in the booklet, and Pages would be better for graphics. It basically worked the same way.
Convert to a Booklet
Step One: In Word, use File>Print, and select the icon with a little PDF written at the bottom to Save As PDF. Word will turn your booklet into a PDF file.
Step Two: Find that PDF file in the Finder, and drag and drop the PDF on the application icon for CocoaBooklet. Cocoa Booklet will then shuffle the pages appropriately and create a new PDF file, the PDF booklet. It will automatically put the 5.5x8.5 pages 2-up on a letter-size piece of paper. CocoaBooklet is smart enough to know that it doesn’t need to zoom the pages in this case, without being specifically told. I was impressed by this, especially since I couldn’t see how to tell CocoaBooklet not to zoom.
Step Three: Find that PDF booklet in the Finder, double-click to open or open it in Preview and print it duplex. See the notes above about printing duplex.
You are strongly advised to just print just one sheet of the booklet first (two sides of paper, four pages of the finished booklet), to test that you have got the duplex settings right and that you are happy with the margins and text size that came out. To change the text size, you will need to go back to Word. The final margins are a combination of margins set in Word, margins set in the booklet program, and margins required by the printer, and I really don’t understand the interaction between the three. You may need to experiment.
If you expect to do this often, you can combine Steps One and Two by adding the booklet program in PDF Services, so that you can send the file directly to CocoaBooklet from Word. Read the program documentation on this.
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