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Is there a good computer program that arranges book copy back to back as it would look in final book form?

In other words, I'd like to be able to type and put together my book in a software program that puts the book into final form, pages back to back, and ready to be bound into a book....instead of my having to send it to a publisher to put it into final form, or me having to shuffle around pages to be printed back to back and using some form of pasteup to do this. In other words, I want to self-publish it and print copies of the book on my printer to give to a few people just to start. I imagine there may be several such software programs that would do this, but which ones and which are the best? Later on I'd have to hire a company to mass produce print it for distribution to bookstores. Sort of in the dark how to do all of this. Anyone know of a good tutorial website that tells how to best self publish a book?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    This is often a function of the hardware driver.

    Some printers can print front and back in one pass.

    Many printers can print front and back in two passes -- first the odd pages, then you turn over the pages and feed them back in for the second pass.

    In software, MS Word can do it in two passes. It's called "Manual Duplex."

    If MS Word can do it, I'm sure everyone else does as well.

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