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To Start a New Booklet: After opening InDesign, choose File. ... Next, select Facing Pages: this will give you left and right hand pages in your InDesign document. Choose your page size. ... It's time to set your margins. ... Under Number of Columns, select Type 1. You're ready to start designing your Indesign booklet!

For those of you that don't know what it is, the term 'print-ready' is often used in the printing business to describe a file that already meets all the necessary specifications to result in a high-resolution printed outcome without the need for any additional intervention or alteration.

Once your book or chapter is error-free and you have saved your work, go to the File pull-down menu and select Export to make a print-ready PDF. Name the PDF, and choose where to save it. Make sure Format is set to "Adobe PDF (Print)", and then click Save.

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In your document, go to File > Print. At the bottom of the box, there's a button called "Setup..." - clicking this brings up a warning, clicking OK brings up printer preferences. Select your printer, click "Preferences" and one of them should be double sided printing.

PDF/X standards are the best choice when your printer hasn't provided you with specs. They're a safe bet if you want to be sure your printer will be able to open your file, while also minimizing any printing errors.

Use Preflight It's typically on by default, but you can double-check by going to the left side of the bottom bar of your InDesign window (directly left of the bottom scroll bar). If it says "Preflight off" click the preflight menu button next to this message and select Preflight Document to turn it on.