BookLightning for Mac

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create and print booklets from PDF files

BookLightning is a Mac OS X 10.5 native utility for imposing PDF files into booklets, either for further processing or to print directly on a duplex or non-duplex printer. Operation couldn't be simpler: just drop a PDF file on the BookLightning icon, and it will create a new PDF with the pages of the original file arranged on sheets ready for folding and stapling. BookLightning does its job very quickly, generating the new PDF file typically takes less than a second.

In order to create a booklet that will be created by printing on and folding letter size paper ( 8.5 x 11 ), set up your original document's page size to half that size: 5.5 x 8.5. This is exactly the size that the individual pages will appear at in the final booklet, because two of them have to fit on each side of the letter size sheets. For users with ISO "A"-style paper sizes, just drop down one size from the size of the paper you will be printing on.

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GENERAL

Release: March 14, 2012

Latest update: February 29, 2024

Version: 1.7.5

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Mac

Operating System

Mac OS X 10.5
Mac OS X 10.7
Mac OS X
Mac OS X 10.4

Additional Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

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Simple & very good for booklets but needs...
Steve9988January 28, 2004
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...instructions<br />This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />One of the previous posters encouraged me to try this seriously and I'm glad I did. The lack of good instructions had discouraged me when it first came out, and that's still a problem. The developer thinks I know more than I do. I encourage others to try. Maybe this will help: For a test, I used a 17-page Word document with 40 footnotes and a picture but without other sophisticated formatting. I opened it, and in Page Setup I selected "Half Letter" as a paper size, which my printer blessedly allowed. (I suppose I could have created a custom paper size.) I doubled-checked the reformatted doc for glitches, which were easily corrected. I found the standard margins didn't look well, so in Format under Document I changed them to T/B=1"; L/R=0.6; gutter=0.7; no mirror. Your mileage may differ. Under Print, I selected Make PDF. After making sure that BookLightning's preferences called for "Letter," I dropped that PDF file on BookLightning's icon. Presto...a correctly-paged, conveniently-sized booklet. I even think that by going to the obscure "Paper Handling" command in the final Print dialogue, one could select "Print Odd," flip the stack, then "Print Even," and get double-sided, even without an automatic double-sided printer. Very interesting. Photo came out only OK but it may have been the poor paper I used. I've been looking for an OS X ClickBook (which is still OS 9 and is the same $49 price as BookLighning), and this may well be IT. It's a one-trick pony (makes one-fold booklets) but seems to do it well. I'm going to give it a try. Thanks to previous posters.