Turn any PDF or Word file into a print-ready booklet
Pick a booklet style, and we reorder and place the pages so that when you print double-sided and fold the stack, it reads 1, 2, 3 — on whatever printer you already own.
Word files are re-typeset with standard fonts when we convert them, so line and page breaks can shift. If the exact layout matters, export to PDF from Word and upload that instead.
Processed on this server and deleted automatically after 6 hours. Not shared with any third party, and never used for anything but your booklet.
Your booklet
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How to print this
Do a two-sheet test first — and what to change if it comes out wrong
Print only the first two sheets. Fold them, check the numbers run in order, then fix whatever looks wrong before committing the whole stack to paper.
- The backs are upside down
- Your printer flipped on the wrong axis. In the printer's own dialog, switch duplex between long-edge and short-edge binding.
- The backs are swapped left to right
- Tick Mirror the back sides in the Printing section here.
- The second pass printed in the wrong order
- Set Order of the second pass to Reversed. Face-up output trays usually need this; face-down trays usually don't.
- Content is cut off at the edges
- Your printer can't print that close to the paper edge. Raise Sheet margin to 10 mm or more.
- Pages came out smaller than expected
- The printer scaled them. Set scaling to 100% or "Actual size" in the print dialog, and turn off "fit to page" and "shrink oversized pages".
- The inner pages drift towards the fore-edge
- Normal on thick booklets. Add Creep allowance — roughly 0.1 mm per sheet of paper.
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How it works
- Upload a PDF or Word file. Word documents are converted to PDF first.
- Choose a style. Saddle stitch is what you want for anything you'd staple in the middle.
- Print double-sided at 100% scale (no "fit to page"), then fold and staple.
The imposed PDF is an ordinary PDF. Nothing about it is printer-specific, so the same file works on an office copier, a home inkjet, or at a print shop.
Questions people actually ask
My printer can't do double-sided. Can I still use this?
Yes, and you don't have to generate anything twice. Set How your printer prints to It only prints one side. The result comes back as two passes, each with its own Print button: print pass 1, put the stack back in the tray, print pass 2. Do a two-sheet test first to learn which way your tray wants the paper — if pass 2 lands upside down, flip the stack; if the pages come out in the wrong order, set Order of the second pass to Reversed.
I want the cover on thick paper.
Set Cover to one of the separate-cover options. The cover comes back as its own section with its own Print button, so you can load card stock just for that one sheet. If your file already has dedicated cover artwork, choose I'll choose the pages and type in the page numbers — those pages are pulled out of the booklet so they don't get printed twice.
The back sides came out upside down or swapped.
Printers disagree about which edge they flip on. If the backs are swapped left-to-right, tick Mirror the back sides. If they're upside down, change your printer's duplex setting from long-edge to short-edge binding (or the other way round).
Why did blank pages appear?
A folded booklet always uses a multiple of four pages, so up to three blanks get added. You can choose whether they land at the end or just after the title page.
How many pages can I saddle-stitch?
Ordinary 80 gsm paper and a long-arm stapler will manage about 60 pages (15 sheets) before the fold gets ugly. Past that, use Signatures and gather them, or Cut & stack and glue the spine.
My PDF has a password.
Upload it and we'll ask for the password. Either the password that opens the document or its owner/permissions password will do. It's used once, on the spot, and never stored — the copy we keep for the next few hours has the encryption removed instead, so the password doesn't need to live anywhere. Password-protected Word files can't be unlocked; remove the password in Word first, or save the file as a PDF.
What happens to my file?
It's processed on this server and deleted automatically after 6 hours. Nothing is sent anywhere else.
Which file types work?
PDF (including PDFs that are only owner-password protected), Word .docx, and plain text.
Old binary .doc files and .odt aren't supported — save them as
.docx or PDF first. Word files are re-typeset with standard fonts, so if exact layout
matters, export to PDF from Word and upload that.