Book Projects

Some might be remember that Our Fuzz at times attempts to write a bit.  Retirement give an excuse (and time) to mess around some.   One of his interests has been making books.  He and His Sweetie have researched bookbinding on line and in real books as well.
Well The Fuzz thought he'd give it a go.  He has a few stories he would like to make some hard copies of.  But this isn't as simple as it appears at first.  There's a lot one has to work out.  If one is only intending to bind a bunch of single sheets together, it can be pretty simple.  But when one starts to look at binding something into signatures, and the signatures into a book, things get more complicated.
So The Fuzz decided to start simple, with a simple booklet.

This still called for laying out the pages in the proper configuration so that when they were printed, folded and bound, everything would be where it was supposed to be.  And this would have to be done for both sides of the papers.
One suggestion was to make a mockup with the proper number of pages, and go from there. That's what The Fuzz pretty much expected.
But after some more online research, he found a couple sites with programs just for this purpose.
The first step is to make the book into a pdf.

Then you can get this.  There was a second file for the other sides of the pages.
This software* arranges things so that the pages will be in the right order once both sides are printed and they are folded and put together.
Then, all that was left was to print it, and put it all together.


*Bookbinder