Doing a little booklet for the office? Using applications such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org Writer or even Adobe InDesign? Well before you go full speed ahead with your booklet, let me give you a few crucial reminders about it. Especially if you are a novice in printing booklets, these reminders will be quite useful in making your drafts better, quicker and easier.

1. Manage your left and right pages – In a booklet, not all pages are the same. Booklets involves managing “right side” pages and “left side” pages. The margin dimensions for each is different and you have to remember to include these changes in your booklet design so that the booklet printing itself has no problems. Usually, a booklet template or a booklet creator wizard should solve these problems for you. So try and see if your software application has this built in. Otherwise, you’ll have to set your pages manually by having “left side pages” have a greater margin of the left, and “right side pages” have a greater margin on the right.

2. Proper picture placement – Images must be placed with care in booklet layouts. You can’t just place it anywhere you like. Just like in any book it is best to put images at the upper part of the page or upper part of the section within the page. This ensures that people will look at the image first and capture their attention.
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