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Game Aids Booklet

What You Need

• A printer that can DUPLEX (that is, print on both sides of the page). If you don't use such a printer, then you can try printing out first the odd pages, flipping them over, and reinserting them into your printer and printing the even pages on the blank sides; however I would NOT RECOMMEND doing this in a laser printer, as this can mess up your imaging drum.
• A LONG STAPLER is ideal. A long stapler has especially long arms so that you can fit lots of paper length under the hinge. If you're going to be making big booklets, this is pretty much vital. If you're making small booklets, then you might be able to carefully do it with a regular stapler.
• Patience -- be prepared to make several test printings first. Keep notes of exactly what printer settings work for you; different printers will perform in subtly different ways.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Print out these pages onto US Letter or A4 paper in landscape orientation. Make sure that you duplex along the SHORT EDGE.
• Make sure, also, that you set Acrobat to "Fit to page" to fit the paper size.
2. Once you have the pages printed out, make sure that they are stacked so that the top sheet you see contains the last numbered page on the left and the first numbered page on the right.
• If you peek under the stack, you should see that the last page lying face down on the desk contains the two middle pages with consecutive numbers (pages 4-5).
3. GENTLY fold the pages over to make a "binding" so that the first numbered page faces you and the last numbered page faces away from you. Press a little so that you have the start of a crease line on the pages.
4. Unfold the pages and lay them flat again on the desk.
• You now have a booklet that's ready to be "saddle-stitched".
5. With your stapler, you want to staple so that the bar of the staple sticks out of the top of the sheets, just along the crease line, as you would see with a normally stapled booklet.
• A long stapler works best for this. (Once you own one, you'll wonder how you ever did without it.) Some regular staplers can just manage a small booklet, but with most you will likely have to gently fold one side of the booklet over again to get it to fit under the stapler's hinge.

Voila! Small booklet!

To make a large booklet:

• Follow the above instructions, but do not set "Fit to page" in Acrobat, and print out the pages onto tabloid paper (11" x17" or the European equivalent; for the latter, you will set the "Fit to page" option selected in Acrobat) in the same way you did with the small booklet.
• Fold and staple in the same way as above. (Now you really will need that long stapler!)

Voila! Large booklet!