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Basics of Imposition
For example, if your layout places 8 pages on a sheet and the total page count in the
book is 12, one of its signatures holds only 4 content pages, with the rest of the space
on the sheet blank. If you do not want blank pages in the middle of the finished book,
insert blank pages intentionally, for example after the cover page, after the table of
contents, or between chapters. To insert blank pages, open the job in the Thumbnail A
window, right-click the page you want to add the blank to (or pull down the Page
menu) and select Insert blank page.
DocBuilder Pro allows you to add blank pages or add, delete, and rearrange pages from
multiple source documents easily, so you can quickly preview the results of page
manipulations.
Binding methods
A book layout also specifies the means by which sheets are gathered and bound.
Stitching or stapling finished pages across a common center fold, or spine, is called
saddle stitch binding and the stitched pages are called a saddle. Multiple folded sheets
can be stitched into the same saddle as a group. Stacking signatures, grinding the
spines off, and then gluing them together is called perfect binding. You can combine
saddle stitch and perfect binding methods by stacking two or more groups one on top
of another on a common fold line and gluing them together; this is called a nested
saddle.
The binding method you use affects the order in which pages are placed on the sheet;
for example, the page ordering used to perfect bind a book must be different from that
used to saddle stitch the same job. Thus, your layout must specify the method by
which the finished job will be bound.
Saddle
Nested Saddle
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