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Basics of Imposition
The printed sheet is subsequently folded into something resembling a booklet having
connected pages. The folded sheet is called a signature, which is then trimmed to the
finished size.
For pages to appear in normal reading order and position in the final booklet, their
ordering and positioning on the sheet must differ from the normal book-reading order.
You can demonstrate this for yourself using an ordinary sheet of paper.
M
ODELING
AN
EIGHT
-
PAGE
BOOKLET
:
1.
Fold the paper in half horizontally.
Fold the top edge of the sheet down to meet the bottom edge.
2.
Fold the paper again vertically.
Fold the left edge of the sheet over to the right edge. Now you have a miniature version
of a signature.
3.
Position the signature with the vertically folded edge to the left and the horizontally
folded edges across the top.
