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Save as PDF. Acrobat has good features for printing booklets.
Some printer drivers do as well. Poke around in the printer options.
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I'm using FM 10 on a Windows 7 system
>
> I'm experimenting with a new format: 8.5 w x 5.5 h pages, landscape
> orientation, spiral bound.
>
> It's a flip book, so when a 2-page spread is open, you're basically
> looking at a 8.5 x 11" letter page with a spiral binding horizontally
> across the middle of it. It will be used outdoors, so it will be
> printed on some kind of card stock.
>
> So far, I've created the pages in FrameMaker (we'll be moving to
> InDesign in the new year). I'd like to print out some draft copies
> withe the correct double-sided page layout so I can staple the collated
> pages and have a good mockup of the final document.
>
> Is there any easier way to do this than knocking myself out manually
> rotating page text columns?
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