Tearing my hair out and wasting LOTS of paper and toner in trying to print a 
booklet. I do NOT have a duplex printer, but I cannot seem to get the 
settings right for this - the pages either don't print next to each other 
properly, or are upside down, or in the wrong order.
Can anyone point me to a GOOD tutorial where I can see what I am not doing? 

Word is crap at booklet printing. Instead, save your document to PDF using 
Word 2007's built-in converter. Then open the document in Adobe Reader v9 
and use its booklet feature. It is impressively good! It is the one saving 
grace in installing a PDF reader that is such a hog.

-- 
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Tearing my hair out and wasting LOTS of paper and toner in trying to print 
> a booklet. I do NOT have a duplex printer, but I cannot seem to get the 
> settings right for this - the pages either don't print next to each other 
> properly, or are upside down, or in the wrong order.
> Can anyone point me to a GOOD tutorial where I can see what I am not 
> doing? 

"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
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> Word is crap at booklet printing. Instead, save your document to PDF using 
> Word 2007's built-in converter. Then open the document in Adobe Reader v9 
> and use its booklet feature. It is impressively good! It is the one saving 
> grace in installing a PDF reader that is such a hog.
>

Thanks! I'll give that a try.... 

"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
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> Word is crap at booklet printing. Instead, save your document to PDF using 
> Word 2007's built-in converter. Then open the document in Adobe Reader v9 
> and use its booklet feature. It is impressively good! It is the one saving 
> grace in installing a PDF reader that is such a hog.
>

Doesn't work. I have seven pages of text and Acrobat will NOT print the 
blank page as page 8 at the end of the document.
In other words instead of printing page 1 and page 8 (the blank page) on the 
first sheet, it prints page 1 and page 7, but it prints a blank page in 
front of page 2 so that page 2 is NOT on the reverse side of the paper to 
page 1. 

I've never had any problem printing a booklet with an odd number of pages in 
Acrobat Reader. Have you insert a break next odd page at the end of the 
first page?

Terry

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>
> "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
> news:umw8$9j0KHA.3412@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Word is crap at booklet printing. Instead, save your document to PDF 
>> using Word 2007's built-in converter. Then open the document in Adobe 
>> Reader v9 and use its booklet feature. It is impressively good! It is the 
>> one saving grace in installing a PDF reader that is such a hog.
>>
>
> Doesn't work. I have seven pages of text and Acrobat will NOT print the 
> blank page as page 8 at the end of the document.
> In other words instead of printing page 1 and page 8 (the blank page) on 
> the first sheet, it prints page 1 and page 7, but it prints a blank page 
> in front of page 2 so that page 2 is NOT on the reverse side of the paper 
> to page 1. 

In fact, I just retested this. I took a 5 page (A4) document and saved it as 
PDF.

I opened it in Acrobat Reader, selected Print and in the option dialog chose 
Booklet Printing under Scaling, Both Sides under Booklet Subset, set my 
printer driver to Duplex (Both Sides) and pressed OK. It printed a perfect 
A5 booklet using Pages 1-5 with pages 6-8 entirely blank as expected.

Terry

"Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>
> "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
> news:umw8$9j0KHA.3412@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Word is crap at booklet printing. Instead, save your document to PDF 
>> using Word 2007's built-in converter. Then open the document in Adobe 
>> Reader v9 and use its booklet feature. It is impressively good! It is the 
>> one saving grace in installing a PDF reader that is such a hog.
>>
>
> Doesn't work. I have seven pages of text and Acrobat will NOT print the 
> blank page as page 8 at the end of the document.
> In other words instead of printing page 1 and page 8 (the blank page) on 
> the first sheet, it prints page 1 and page 7, but it prints a blank page 
> in front of page 2 so that page 2 is NOT on the reverse side of the paper 
> to page 1. 

"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
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> I've never had any problem printing a booklet with an odd number of pages 
> in Acrobat Reader. Have you insert a break next odd page at the end of the 
> first page?

No. (I have to say it's not my document - it was originally created in 
Publisher and has been converted to Word for insertion in another document, 
although it's a document in it's own right)

If I insert a break -next odd page at the bottom of page 1, when it gets 
saved as pdf there's a blank page as page 2.....so that doesn't work either. 

"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
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> In fact, I just retested this. I took a 5 page (A4) document and saved it 
> as PDF.
>
> I opened it in Acrobat Reader, selected Print and in the option dialog 
> chose Booklet Printing under Scaling, Both Sides under Booklet Subset, set 
> my printer driver to Duplex (Both Sides) and pressed OK. It printed a 
> perfect A5 booklet using Pages 1-5 with pages 6-8 entirely blank as 
> expected.
>

There is definitely something very weird going on here. It doesn't matter 
what I do, the print preview in Acrobat shows the WRONG printing - the blank 
page is inserted in front of page 2, NOT  next to page 1, which is where it 
should be.
If I choose Odd pages, (I don't have a duplex printer), it shows page 1 and 
page 7, NOT page 1 and the blank page. 

I agree that's wrong, but I'm not sure why. Have you tried it with a 
different document?

Terry

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> "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
> news:uZVGn$k0KHA.4420@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> In fact, I just retested this. I took a 5 page (A4) document and saved it 
>> as PDF.
>>
>> I opened it in Acrobat Reader, selected Print and in the option dialog 
>> chose Booklet Printing under Scaling, Both Sides under Booklet Subset, 
>> set my printer driver to Duplex (Both Sides) and pressed OK. It printed a 
>> perfect A5 booklet using Pages 1-5 with pages 6-8 entirely blank as 
>> expected.
>>
>
> There is definitely something very weird going on here. It doesn't matter 
> what I do, the print preview in Acrobat shows the WRONG printing - the 
> blank page is inserted in front of page 2, NOT  next to page 1, which is 
> where it should be.
> If I choose Odd pages, (I don't have a duplex printer), it shows page 1 
> and page 7, NOT page 1 and the blank page. 

"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
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> I agree that's wrong, but I'm not sure why. Have you tried it with a 
> different document?
>

No I haven't yet - I'll do that. 

"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
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> I agree that's wrong, but I'm not sure why. Have you tried it with a 
> different document?
>

Yes. It does exactly the same thing.
Could it be the printer driver? 

Well that's one item that common to the different documents, so it very 
could be.

If you have a non-confidential document, you could send it to me as an email 
attachment for testing.

Terry

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> "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
> news:e4cBy4m0KHA.3652@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> I agree that's wrong, but I'm not sure why. Have you tried it with a 
>> different document?
>>
>
> Yes. It does exactly the same thing.
> Could it be the printer driver? 

"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
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> Well that's one item that common to the different documents, so it very 
> could be.
>
> If you have a non-confidential document, you could send it to me as an 
> email attachment for testing.
>

Thanks - I'll send you the original pdf - it's a Good Friday service so not 
very confidential! 

Hi Gordon

I got the fine. It was a 9 page PDF but the final 2 pages were blank. So I 
printed a duplex booklet selecting pages 1-7. The PDF printer perfectly onto 
2 sheets of A4 which when folded in half made a perfect booklet. So you may 
be correct in that your printer driver is the problem.

FWIW, I use a Canon Pixma ip4600 which I believe has recently been 
superseded by the IP4700.

Terry


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>
> "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
> news:#R5gZzn0KHA.776@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Well that's one item that common to the different documents, so it very 
>> could be.
>>
>> If you have a non-confidential document, you could send it to me as an 
>> email attachment for testing.
>>
>
> Thanks - I'll send you the original pdf - it's a Good Friday service so 
> not very confidential! 

"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi Gordon
>
> I got the fine. It was a 9 page PDF but the final 2 pages were blank. So I 
> printed a duplex booklet selecting pages 1-7. The PDF printer perfectly 
> onto 2 sheets of A4 which when folded in half made a perfect booklet. So 
> you may be correct in that your printer driver is the problem.
>
> FWIW, I use a Canon Pixma ip4600 which I believe has recently been 
> superseded by the IP4700.

Thanks for that Terry - my printer is a Lexmark C540N Colour Laser but it 
has no Duplex, so that might be the problem? I presume that a document with 
even numbers of text pages might be OK. I'll try it. 

"Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>
> "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
> news:#NYCwLo0KHA.4412@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hi Gordon
>>
>> I got the fine. It was a 9 page PDF but the final 2 pages were blank. So 
>> I printed a duplex booklet selecting pages 1-7. The PDF printer perfectly 
>> onto 2 sheets of A4 which when folded in half made a perfect booklet. So 
>> you may be correct in that your printer driver is the problem.
>>
>> FWIW, I use a Canon Pixma ip4600 which I believe has recently been 
>> superseded by the IP4700.
>
> Thanks for that Terry - my printer is a Lexmark C540N Colour Laser but it 
> has no Duplex, so that might be the problem? I presume that a document 
> with even numbers of text pages might be OK. I'll try it.

No it didn't. I assume it's because I have no duplex. Bummer. Interestingly 
it seemed to work with my non-duplex Samsung CLP 300N...but the memory may 
be going!
Thanks for all the help. 

"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi Gordon
>
> I got the fine. It was a 9 page PDF but the final 2 pages were blank. So I 
> printed a duplex booklet selecting pages 1-7. The PDF printer perfectly 
> onto 2 sheets of A4 which when folded in half made a perfect booklet. So 
> you may be correct in that your printer driver is the problem.
>
> FWIW, I use a Canon Pixma ip4600 which I believe has recently been 
> superseded by the IP4700.
>

Interestingly I have just done this in Open Office - worked OK! 

That's just weird!

Terry

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> "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
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>> Hi Gordon
>>
>> I got the fine. It was a 9 page PDF but the final 2 pages were blank. So 
>> I printed a duplex booklet selecting pages 1-7. The PDF printer perfectly 
>> onto 2 sheets of A4 which when folded in half made a perfect booklet. So 
>> you may be correct in that your printer driver is the problem.
>>
>> FWIW, I use a Canon Pixma ip4600 which I believe has recently been 
>> superseded by the IP4700.
>>
>
> Interestingly I have just done this in Open Office - worked OK! 

"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message 
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> That's just weird!
>

Yep - very!