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Printing page range in booklet setting... - Maurice Saylor, 22 Sep 02:52PM

Re: Printing page range in booklet setting... - Adrian Drover, 22 Sep 04:40PM

Re: Printing page range in booklet setting... - Maurice Saylor, 22 Sep 04:49PM

Re: Printing page range in booklet setting... - Adrian Drover, 22 Sep 06:41PM

Re: Printing page range in booklet setting... - Kai Struck, 23 Sep 10:04AM

Printing page range in booklet setting...
Posted by Maurice Saylor - 22 Sep 02:52PM

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Friends,

Has anyone found an easy way to print a portion of a score in the booklet print setting? When "booklet" is selected when printing, the range selection no longer functions.

When a score is over 80 pages, I like to collect the pages into signatures of 20 pages each which I then bind together with bookbinding glue.

I have found only two ways to do this, both time-consuming:

1. Divide the score into files of 20 pages. This takes some time and any corrections/alterations to the score need to be made in the complete score and the divided score.
2. Print to PDF and then deal with Adobe's ways of printing to booklet which I find more difficult to deal with.

Any ideas?

Maurice Saylor

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Re: Printing page range in booklet setting...
Posted by Adrian Drover - 22 Sep 04:40PM

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There is a way, but it's not simple. To print the first 20 pages, select 2-up and double sided. Then in Print Range, type:
20,1,2,19, 18,3,4,17, 16,5,6,15, 14,7,8,13, 12,9,10,11.

Then for the next 20 pages:
40,21,22,39 and so on (add 20 to the last batch)....

Get it?

Re: Printing page range in booklet setting...
Posted by Maurice Saylor - 22 Sep 04:49PM

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Adrian, That is brilliant. Since I nearly always do signatures in sets of 20 pages, it seems it would be exceedingly simple to do this if I save a file with the various strings of numbers needed and then simply cut and paste the numbers when I go to print signatures for any given score.

Thank you for this. I'll give it a try!

Maurice

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Sibelius user since 2002
PC. Sibelius 8.6.1.
I write music: MauriceSaylor.net
I arrange, orchestrate, engrave, and print other people's music: www.facebook.com/ComposerSaylor
I write and perform new scores for vintage silent comedies: SnarkEnsemble.org

Re: Printing page range in booklet setting...
Posted by Adrian Drover - 22 Sep 06:41PM

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Glad to help, Maurice. I discovered this method when I got fed up with having to let Sib print 3 blank pages in a 5 or 9 page booklet. It allowed me to save paper by inserting an A4 page inside a folded A3 booklet.

Re: Printing page range in booklet setting...
Posted by Kai Struck - 23 Sep 10:04AM

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There is also a nice free software called PDF-Booklet
http://pdfbooklet.sourceforge.net/

for creating Booklet PDFs from normal order PDFs. It has a "multiple Booklets" mode where you can set the number of leaves for every Booklet. Default is 5 (=20pages). Is fast and works like a charm.

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Printing page range in booklet setting... - Maurice Saylor, 22 Sep 02:52PM

Re: Printing page range in booklet setting... - Adrian Drover, 22 Sep 04:40PM

Re: Printing page range in booklet setting... - Maurice Saylor, 22 Sep 04:49PM

Re: Printing page range in booklet setting... - Adrian Drover, 22 Sep 06:41PM

Re: Printing page range in booklet setting... - Kai Struck, 23 Sep 10:04AM