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Booklet printing

Booklets are documents printed on both sides of the paper and folded to resemble the pages in

a book. When printed as a booklet, pages are reordered so that you can fold the printed pages

and read the content in the same order as they were in the project.

Printing layouts as a booklet can be much quicker than printing pages single-sided or double-

sided. For example, if your full score is twenty pages long and you print it on both sides

automatically, you must then bind one edge of the printed pages in order to keep them together.

However, if you print the full score as a booklet, you can simply fold the printed pages in the

middle.

Booklet printing settings reorder pages so that they appear in the correct order on the printed

page. For example, a layout containing four pages printed as a booklet is laid out as follows:

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First side: page four on the left, page one on the right

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Reverse side: page two on the left, page three on the right

If the layout you are printing as a booklet contains an odd number of pages, Dorico Elements

automatically places any empty last pages at the end of the booklet. This follows the convention

of showing odd-numbered pages on the right. For example, if you print a layout containing six

pages as a booklet, a total of eight pages are printed with the last two pages in the booklet left

blank. If you want the empty pages to be positioned differently, you can add extra pages to the

layout, for example, a title page.

NOTE

● You can only print booklets using the complete range of pages. You cannot dene any page

ranges.

● If the order of inward pages is incorrect when you are printing booklets using manual

duplexing, you can activate Reverse order of outward pages in the Duplex Printing section

of the Print Options panel, which instructs

Dorico Elements to output the rst set of pages in

the opposite order.