Pagination and page imposition is a strange thing when you first try and grok it. As designers we always see the pages in our layouts as sequentially numbered page pairs. The most complicated things normally get is explaining to newbies why things always start with a right-hand page (it’s the cover, of course), and figuring out how to start at a different page number when you’re splitting a publication up across multiple documents. (It’s easy, go to Layout > Numbering & Section Options.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is still all about ‘designer’s pairs’, looking at a multiple-page document from the point of view of the designer. But that’s not how things are printed. In order to fit sets of A4 pages onto the larger sheet run through a commercial press and have them assembled easily into the final sets of folded and trimmed pages, print production people use what’s called imposition: the rearrangement of pages into ‘printer’s pairs’, set up so that page two will end up facing page three despite being on different bits of paper in the finished book or magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n