In other words you can print a PDF to another PDF! It’s possible to make a PDF with the booklet formatting and ordering all ready to go.īoth Windows and Mac have an in-built ‘Print to PDF’ option which saves any print output to a PDF file.Īdobe Reader’s print can use that separate ‘Print to PDF’ option. It will change as you alter the settings so you have a very good idea of what will be printed out. PreviewĪdobe Reader’s Print Preview is far better than Preview in Word. Open the PDF in Adobe Reader and go to Print.īooklet subset – print front or back sides or both (if your printer can print double-sided or not).īinding – where are the staples going? Left, Right, Left (Tall), Right (Tall). At the stage you have a PDF with your document as full-size pages in standard order. Make the Word document normally with regular Letter/Legal/A4 pages in normal order (i.e. Booklet Printing from Word via PDFĪdobe Reader takes a standard size and page ordered document then does all the resizing and page re-ordering necessary to make a booklet version.
PDF booklet printing is available in both Windows and Mac. Adobe Reader workaroundĪdobe’s free PDF Reader ( Adobe Reader DC) has a booklet printing option which, in some ways, is easier to use than Word booklets. Word’s Booklet Printing is done in the document (Layout | Paragraph | Page Setup | Multiple Pages | Book Fold.īut that method might not suit you or Word isn’t booklet printing properly (as happened with the January 2019 updates). Microsoft Word has a booklet printing option but there’s a simple alternative if it’s not working.