Once you’re happy with the hole placement, go ahead and make the holes. Take a moment again and make sure your pages are in order, especially if you let the papers out of your sight for even a second while your two-year-old was in the room. I don’t think it matters too much how many holes you add - I’ve made some booklets with just three holes and they’ve held up fine. On this booklet, I added four more markings, each an inch apart. 4) Measure the Hole Spacingįind the middle of your page and make a mark (4.25 inches from the top if you’re using a standard 8.5 x 11) - then measure out from there. I’m sure you could be quick and fold them all at once - but I’m a perfectionist, so I wouldn’t know. If you’re a perfectionist, you’ll want to fold a few of them at a time so that you get a sharp crease. 3) Fold the Pages in Halfįolding your papers in half is pretty straightforward. I recommend using something thicker than regular paper. I use cardstock personally - I like that it’s stiff, but still easy to fold. 2) Add a CoverĪfter your pages are printed out and in order - I can’t stress this enough - you’ll want to add a cover. This is a screenshot from my Mac it may look slightly different on your screen. I’m assuming you’ll stick to free, though. After you’ve opened your PDF in Acrobat Reader, click print and then select Booklet. Create Booklet really is a handy little program it’s designed specifically for making booklets, so it lets me scale my pages, change my margins, add page numbers, and more. And I wish someone had told me that before I bought the Create Booklet app for Macs. Luckily Acrobat Reader will print out booklets for you, so all you need to do is save your document as a PDF and then open it with Acrobat Reader, which is a free program. Trust me, trying to do this all manually is far too much work. The next paper will have the second page and the second-last page on the front, and the third page and the third-last page on the back. The very outside sheet is going to have your first page on the left and your last page on the right. Imagine all your pages in a stack and then folded in half - this is your booklet. Make Your Own Booklet: Instructions 1) Print Your PagesĪfter you’ve decided on what to put in your booklet, you’ll need to print it off. The most important part of printing off a booklet is making sure the pages are in the right order, and it’s not all that intuitive. You might think it’s tedious to make a new booklet each month, but if that’s the case, you need to go reread this post from the beginning (start at the part that says “making booklets is fun and addictive”). I do one at a time so I can adjust our schedule as life changes. Mostly, though, the booklets I print are my monthly homeschool planners. With any luck, I’ll avoid buying a fourth copy of Misty of Chincoteague. It would be so handy to have a list when we pop into the library or bookstores - not to mention the used curriculum sales are coming up this spring. I’d like to do a book list booklet with all the books recommended in our homeschool curriculum. I’ve printed out our Outdoor Hour Challenge books as booklets to take along on hikes. We’ve done calendar booklets with illustrations by my daughter as Christmas presents. It’s my decoy booklet, designed to keep my two-year-old away from the more important ones. I made a month-long homeschool planner, and then a booklet of the knitting patterns I’m working through, and then a booklet that’s just blank paper for my kids to scribble through. I didn’t mean for it to become a hobby or anything - I just wanted a few booklets for my homemade traveller’s notebook. A word of warning: making booklets is fun and addictive.
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