Post Aw6mOmGYaL8WDFEjxY by birv2@pkm.social
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(DIR) Post #Aw6GB65msTSD7DdGeO by lextenebris@social.vivaldi.net
2025-07-13T19:14:03Z
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@birv2 I think I'm going to need more description about where you're having the problem at. You can, if you're doing the layout yourself, simply lay it out with pages as spreads, which is supported in most of the desktop publishing software. Are you having trouble doing the layout or figuring out how it's going to be printed, which is typically just spreads front and back on pages?
(DIR) Post #Aw6mOmGYaL8WDFEjxY by birv2@pkm.social
2025-07-14T01:15:08Z
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@lextenebris Thanks for the reply. So far I'm having 2 issues -- getting it printed with facing pages (as in a zine) and also inserting a blank page after the cover, so that all the facing pages line up correctly.
(DIR) Post #Aw6rEzcmYzQwWBmoEa by lextenebris@social.vivaldi.net
2025-07-14T02:09:26Z
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@birv2 What software are you using? Because it's pretty easy with both Scribus or Affinity Publisher. Anything that includes the basics of effective layout. Remember, an A5 sheet is just half of an A4 sheet, lengthwise. So, to do your layout, think of it in terms of each spread being on a single A4 sheet.Typically, when it's printed in zine format, the sequence is a bit different than would be normally intuitive. The first and last page are, of course, the outside one—the furthest back, the one on the bottom—and then you progressively move up the stack. Again, most of the layout software out there will do this for you if you tell it.Skipping the first page is just putting a blank page into the layout. Easy peasy.
(DIR) Post #Aw6rOPv4AX3sg0peoS by lextenebris@social.vivaldi.net
2025-07-14T02:11:09Z
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@birv2 Affinity even has a specific print mode to do the stacking for you: "Booklet."