Lea’s Comments (group member since May 29, 2015)

Lea’s comments from the Help with Book Formatting group.

Thanks, Andrew! It occurs to me that I never once explained I want to print a signature-bound book. I found a program that someone in the UK designed for themselves that I think I can figure out, but I'll have to play with it a little. :-)

Thanks for trying. Hopefully someone out there has invented a program to make formatting 4 page signature printing easier.

Thank you for the offer. :-) I'll keep hunting for that program.

Yes, but it drives me crazy to have to do it page by page.

Thanks for the suggestion! However, I don't have pictures in my books. Would InDesign permit me to (or does it come with a template for) pasting a manuscript in and rearranging it into a print ready status? (Remembering that I have to fold pieces of paper and number them, etc., to get Word to do what I want.) Thanks!

Andrew wrote: "Hi, I'm not sure why you're doing that but I think you want to see what your book will look like when it's properly printed.

As long as have set up your document as single pages (not spreads), de..."

I'm hoping you were addressing my comment. I guess I should've specified that I'm my own publisher and my printer, Lightning Source, actually only takes ready-to-print files. That's why I arrange it in Word that way.
:-D You don't know of a program that'll arrange it for me, do you? (hoping)

As usual, I'm late to the party, but at least I think it's the right party. I've been googling book formatting programs and I'm not sure google knows what I mean. Perhaps one of you knows of a program that would let me copy my manuscript from Word and paste it into the program with the result of having it come out in proper paperback format? In the past I've done it "by hand," so to speak, in Word, and it's almost driven me crazy. I usually wind up taking four pieces of paper, folding the stack in half, and numbering the pages left to right so that I can figure out which page would follow which in Word so that it prints correctly. Thanks!