#nekotsuki

It's currently imposed for 4-sheet signatures (4 papers folded together into a booklet), with 34 signatures total (flyleaf included). Total page count is 544 with the flyleaf; 539 without. Printing the imposed version will cost 136 sheets of letter-sized paper.

No Rest For The Weary.pdf is the regular exported PDF, no flyleaf, no imposition; just the pages. This is what you want if you plan on putting it through your own imposition software. This is also what you want if you are going to read it electronically as an eBook.

NoRestForTheWeary-files is the folder of signatures. The software I used this time did not produce an aggregate file, so you will need to print each signature individually. The bad news is this makes it much more of a hassle to print it through a commercial printer; if printing at home, you'll have to babysit the printer for... a while. But. Good news: it'll be easier to keep the signatures separate before they're folded.

This typeset is color heavy! That means two things. One: printing will be more expensive (sorry). Two: you will need to do some paper-experimenting, because that much ink will saturate normal copy/printer paper and it will show through the page (on an inkjet. I don't have a color laser to test it on). But also, thicker paper binds into a thicker book, and this one is Big. So. Do with that what you will.

Also! In your printer settings: flip along the short edge. If you flip on the long edge half your pages will end up upside down. Please also make sure the image/file is centered on the page. If it is not centered, the pages do not line up in the margins after folding, and then trimming the book block becomes a nightmare.

If you want to do your own imposition - like, if you want 8-sheet signatures instead of 4, or 1-sheet signatures for thermal/perfect binding - I used this software here. You will need Java installed on your computer to run it. It's going to download as a zip; you open the zip, pull up the .jar file to open the program, and then it creates a folder within the opened zip folder for the signature files. It will not do this if the opened zip folder is still in your downloads folder. I don't know why.

I have also used PDFsnake for perfect-bound signatures. You get one free imposition/download a day, but it works well.

I have also-also used this website for generating signatures. It does not currently work for folios (1-sheet signatures), and the last couple times I tried regular signatures it just... got stuck generating and never delivered the files. I suspect it's currently under construction from the dev team, but you're welcome to play around with it. Maybe it will work better for you than it did for me.