Reorder a PDF into correct saddle-stitch printer-spread order, ready to print, fold, and staple as a booklet.
Printing a multi-page document as a folded, stapled booklet means the pages can't just go in reading order, sheet by sheet, they have to be arranged in a specific spread sequence so that after folding and stapling, the pages read correctly from front to back. Working that sequence out by hand is fiddly and easy to get wrong. This free tool calculates it automatically and lays out the result as print-ready spreads.
Drag and drop the PDF you want to print as a booklet into the box above.
The tool works out the correct saddle-stitch spread order and lays out two pages per sheet.
Download the result, print double-sided, fold the stack in half, and staple along the spine.
The tool pads your document to a multiple of four pages if needed (adding blank pages at the end, since a saddle-stitched booklet is always printed in sheets of four pages), then calculates the correct outside-in page pairing for each sheet, the classic saddle-stitch signature order. Each output page is a landscape sheet with two of your original pages placed side by side, ready to print double-sided, fold down the middle, and staple along the spine.
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It's the specific page sequence needed so that when a stack of sheets is folded in half and stapled along the fold, the pages read in the correct order from front to back. It's not the same as your document's normal reading order.
The tool automatically pads it with blank pages at the end until it is, since a saddle-stitched booklet is always printed in sheets of four pages.
Print the output PDF double-sided (flip on the short edge), then fold the whole stack in half and staple along the fold. Each output sheet already has two of your original pages side by side in landscape.
Yes, from a few pages up to a large document, the same signature-order math applies regardless of length.
That depends on your original page size and printer, since each output sheet is twice as wide as one original page (two pages side by side), you'll generally want to print on a sheet size sized accordingly, or scale to fit at print time.
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