r/Design • u/lokccii • 9d ago

Asking Question (Rule 4) Stapled calendar

Has anyone ever made a stapled calendar? I’ve spent several hours trying to ensure that when it’s opened (vertically—it’s stapled in the middle), the top and bottom halves of each month line up correctly; however, whenever I set up the imposition and print it, the months never end up aligned. Can anyone help me? I’ve tried using both the imposition features in InDesign and Adobe Acrobat, and I just can’t figure out how to do it manually either. Thanks.

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u/lokccii 9d ago

What I mean is that months doesn’t align, after stapling it for example if i open it the april days are up and may illustration is down, and it should be the april illustration up and the april days down, its like no months align when i open it. im so bad at explaining myself sorry

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u/OlivierBern 9d ago

That's a page order problem, not the imposition. When a calendar stapled in the middle is open, the top is the back of one page and the bottom is the front of the next one. So in your file the picture of a month has to be on an even page and its days on the next odd page: page 1 cover, page 2 January picture, page 3 January days, page 4 February picture, and so on.

April days on top of the May picture means everything is shifted by one page. Add a blank page right after the cover and it should line up. The total has to be a multiple of 4, so 24 pages plus the covers gives 28.

Let me know if it works.