Hi, this tool is amazing! I was wondering if you had any suggestions for if I want to glue a bunch of the 8th size zines together to make a longer booklet! I'm a bit confused about where to put blank pages in the pdf so I can glue the front and backs together. Thanks so much :)
Ooh, that's a really interesting concept / question! The bad news is the way Zine Arranger handles lots of pages is gonna make this especially tricky.
Right now whenever there's more than 1 sheet worth of pages, Zine Arranger sets things up so that each sheet nests into the middle of the previous -- so like for a minizine, you'd open the first sheet to the middle, lay the 2nd sheet in there and so on, and then staple the spine. But for gluing the 2nd sheet to the 1st sheet, you'd need a totally different page order...
It's a bit of a pain, but right now my best suggestion would be to separate each sheet into it's own 8-page PDF -- then you just have to make the first and/or last page blank, depending on where the sheet falls in the order.
It's good to know about this method of making a longer booklet, though! I'm glad you reached out. I added a note about it on my to-do list. Someday when I get a chance to add some features to this, I'll try to add in an option to have the pages arranged in a way that would work better for this--maybe where each 8 pages becomes 1 complete minizine, in order instead of expecting to be nested into each other.
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Holy moly this tool is amazing! Thank you so much for making and sharing it!
Hi, this tool is amazing! I was wondering if you had any suggestions for if I want to glue a bunch of the 8th size zines together to make a longer booklet! I'm a bit confused about where to put blank pages in the pdf so I can glue the front and backs together. Thanks so much :)
Ooh, that's a really interesting concept / question! The bad news is the way Zine Arranger handles lots of pages is gonna make this especially tricky.
Right now whenever there's more than 1 sheet worth of pages, Zine Arranger sets things up so that each sheet nests into the middle of the previous -- so like for a minizine, you'd open the first sheet to the middle, lay the 2nd sheet in there and so on, and then staple the spine. But for gluing the 2nd sheet to the 1st sheet, you'd need a totally different page order...
It's a bit of a pain, but right now my best suggestion would be to separate each sheet into it's own 8-page PDF -- then you just have to make the first and/or last page blank, depending on where the sheet falls in the order.
It's good to know about this method of making a longer booklet, though! I'm glad you reached out. I added a note about it on my to-do list. Someday when I get a chance to add some features to this, I'll try to add in an option to have the pages arranged in a way that would work better for this--maybe where each 8 pages becomes 1 complete minizine, in order instead of expecting to be nested into each other.
Ah I see! Thanks for your help! Have a good one :)
I spent hours trying to figure out how to lay out my zine, then found this and got it done right away! thanks so much, this is such a great tool!
Yay! I'm so glad you found it helpful! It saves me a lot of time too haha
This tool is incredible! I've just made my first zine, and it saved me soooooo much time with figuring out the printing for a quarter zine.
Ahh, I'm so glad! I love hearing any time folks make their first zine, and it means a lot to hear that you found this helpful for that!
super helpful. thanks for making this!
this is awesome, exactly what I have been looking for
This is amazing! Thank you so much for making this tool ♡♡♡
you beautiful moonbeam!! ive been tirelessly searching for a tool to automate this process. thank you so much for making this.
Thank you!! I was in the same boat, searching all over for a tool to make this part easy. I'm glad others are finding it as handy as well!