How can I print a booklet from my presentation?

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I need to print a saddlestick booklet from my PowerPoint presentation on our
Cannon printer/copier. The Print dialog box has a booklet mode, but it is not
printing like I want it. I would like it to print double sided, where it can
be flipped through left to right. Is this possible?

Thanks.
 
With saddle-stitching, you'll need imposition options.

Basically, say you have 4 slides -- slides 1 and 4 need to print on one side
of the paper, and slides 2 and 3 need to print on the other side.

If you have more pages, it becomes more complicated.

PPT's not designed to do something like this. You really should be working
with a page layout program -- InDesign, Quark, Pagemaker, Publisher, etc. (I
*assume* Publisher will do imposition, anyway. With Quark, you need an
add-in. Can't remember with Pagemaker or InDesign....) Or, I suppose you
could reorder your slides, but I'd make a mockup by hand before you do that,
because I can guarantee you you'll end up with something out of order if you
don't. (That's the voice of experience speaking. <g>)

If you use a page layout program, do a File/Save As in PPT and save your
slides as an image format. PNG should work fairly well. Then import those
into the page layout program and do the imposition/booklet printing from
there.

Here's a quickie link with some basic info about imposition.
http://desktoppub.about.com/od/imposition/a/imposition.htm

You might be able to use Acrobat (full version/Distiller, not the reader) to
do this fairly painlessly, but I'll leave that for Steve to answer, because
I don't know for sure.
 
Echo is right, but some printer drivers will also do what you want. I
had a printer driver that had a booklet mode, and it did just what you
want in Word. I never tried it in PowerPoint. Perhaps, you can try Send
to Word and see if your printer driver will work with Word.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

With saddle-stitching, you'll need imposition options.

Basically, say you have 4 slides -- slides 1 and 4 need to print on
one side of the paper, and slides 2 and 3 need to print on the other
side.

If you have more pages, it becomes more complicated.

PPT's not designed to do something like this. You really should be
working with a page layout program -- InDesign, Quark, Pagemaker,
Publisher, etc. (I *assume* Publisher will do imposition, anyway. With
Quark, you need an add-in. Can't remember with Pagemaker or
InDesign....) Or, I suppose you could reorder your slides, but I'd
make a mockup by hand before you do that, because I can guarantee you
you'll end up with something out of order if you don't. (That's the
voice of experience speaking. <g>)

If you use a page layout program, do a File/Save As in PPT and save
your slides as an image format. PNG should work fairly well. Then
import those into the page layout program and do the
imposition/booklet printing from there.

Here's a quickie link with some basic info about imposition.
http://desktoppub.about.com/od/imposition/a/imposition.htm

You might be able to use Acrobat (full version/Distiller, not the
reader) to do this fairly painlessly, but I'll leave that for Steve to
answer, because I don't know for sure.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com


Caslon said:
I need to print a saddlestick booklet from my PowerPoint presentation
on our
Cannon printer/copier. The Print dialog box has a booklet mode, but
it is not
printing like I want it. I would like it to print double sided, where
it can
be flipped through left to right. Is this possible?

Thanks.
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You might be able to use Acrobat (full version/Distiller, not the reader) to
do this fairly painlessly, but I'll leave that for Steve to answer, because
I don't know for sure.
Click to expand...

Acrobat itself won't do imposition, but if you can make a PDF from any app,
there's an Acrobat plug-in called Quite Imposing that's a real gem for this
kind of thing.

www.quite.com



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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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