Topic awaiting preservation: About the 1st page in Pagemaker

I'm designing a 30-page thing for print in Pagemaker
and selecet the two-page option when setting up the document.

However, the very 1st page in pagemaker allways remains single
when all other pages is viewed in pairs of two..so the question is:

Can you put something on that 1st single page or does everything
need to be on the pages shown in pair?

(I belive it should be on double pages when you send it to print
because they prints everything in pairs and then cuts it right but
I am not sure..perhaps someone here is?)

Hi there flyer! Nice to see another countryman in here

The first page is single for a simple reason. PM shows you the pages like you would read them in a folder.
(ie Yep, you should put content on it!)

For a 4 page folder that would be:
First page = single = Page 1 = front page of folder.
First spread = page 2 and 3
Last page = single = page 4 = back of folder

I'm not sure how the prepress is working it after that, but if you make a print design with an odd number of pages you'll always be left with a blank page.

Make them 2 pages, 4 pages and then add 4 pages until happy when you're designing something that is to be "häftat" (don't know the english term). If you're making things that are glued in the back, just keep the number of pages so that they can be divided with two.

Why?

If you make a 10-page folder in A4-format and it is to be "häftad" you have basicly two folded A3's that makes pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10. Then you need to add a single A4 in the middle for pages 5 and 6, and you'll end up with nowhere to put the staple in the single A4. Nothing to worry about now, since the 30-pager would work just fine.

You could always try to get hold of the "Grafisk Kokbok" which is a rather good swedish book about desktop publishing. Good Luck!



[This message has been edited by Nimraw (edited 05-25-2002).]

I think the english equivalent of the word you are looking for is 'imposition' - the way in which the pages are ordered on the sheets prior to being cut and folded.

The word your looking for is "staple". But anyway... thanks alot!!

*sigh*
Thanks Flyer. I even used the correct word later in my post *slaps head*

Eggles:
Thanks for that term (that I also did not know) but i was after the correct word for the technique that holds folded pages together in the middle by staples (see above).

Good - glad we got that sorted out.

Hay, we have another Aussie in here! WooT! Hah!

Melborne eh, doesn't Skaarjj live in Melbourne too? Yah, I think so...