If you’ve installed Create Booklet, you will see PDF Booklet as one of the options. Launch Automator (it’s in your Applications folder) and go to Workflow > Actions > Library > PDFs. Yes, Automator - the little-known but very powerful tool built into OS X.
The key is to use Create Booklet’s support for Automator actions. Once you install Create Booklet, it will appear as an option whenever you have the ability to Save as PDF, which is useful:īut that doesn’t quite yet help us with our Sibelius problem, because the default Create Booklet setting on a 2-page part will give you a “booklet” instead of a 2-up document. There are several expensive software programs that can do this, but my favorite for Mac OS X is a freeware app called Create Booklet. In order to make 2-up PDFs, then, my method has been to export PDFs from Sibelius ( File > Export > PDF) and then impose the 2-up PDFs using third-party software. It’s not possible using the OS dialog (at least on Mac maybe PC users can comment further). However, to make PDFs in this way, one is stymied. In Sibelius 7, one can still print 2-ups using Backstage ( File > Print > Settings, and from the drop-down that says “Normal” select instead “2 Pages Per Sheet”):
The result was a PDF that looked like this: One of the nice features in Sibelius releases prior to Sibelius 7 was the ability to not only print “2-ups” (2 images per sheet, side by side), but to make PDFs of them directly from the Sibelius Print dialog.
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