: Cut A4 design to A5 for printing I design a 32 pages (excluding cover and back) A5 (A4 folded to center) booklet. While designing, I put page 1-2 in one A4 landscape format artboard, 3-4

@Michele215

Indesign has a "Print Booklet" feature that does exactly this.

Place the pages in the order you'll read them into Indesign using "facing pages". Rearrange at will and when you're ready go to File->Print Booklet and select "saddle stitch" – that's what this kind of binding is called. You're page count has to be a multiple of 4, so you may need to add a blank page or 2 (typically an inside cover).

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@Kevin459

Not the best option, given that you're going to save the artwork in pdf, create A5 artboards for individual pages (anchor the A4 page to middle-left & resize the artboard before adding a new artboard beside it).

Now that you have single-pager pdf, extract it to become a single-page pdfs (page01.pdf, page02.pdf, etc). Then either place it in InDesign for convenience (you can export them in spreads), or place the single page pdfs on A4 artboards in Illustrator.

AFAIK, a single-pager pdf is much more convenient for printers to work on rather than a spread format. Maybe because you already make the pages to look like a spread/imposed sheet, consequently they just ask you to rearrange them.

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