Book Binder Software

So..., last night I got a little crafty and decided to turn my Cardiff Uni BCS Dissertation into a book.  Not going to publish it, mind you.  I'm actually going to make it into a book.  I found a great piece of free software from Quantum Elephant that turns any PDF into a book.  Well, actually it will divide the individual pages into signatures that you can then bind into a book form yourself.  The software is easy to use and offers some variability.  You have the option to change units, type of printer, book size, and signature format.  There is also a box to check if you want to add a flyleaf.  I took my nearly 100 page dissertation and scrunched it down to three signatures of 8 sheets of paper each (there are four 'book-pages' on each sheet of printer paper).  The software organizes each book page on the sheets so that they are in order when printed and folded into signatures.  Really simple.  Just make sure that you click the tab for reverse printing on your printer software to ensure that the 'side 2' pages of each PDF coupling are printed in the correct order.  I kept forgetting and wasted 24 sheets of printer paper (ouch..., and not very green at all).  While Katherine and I are in the process of minimizing, I felt that my dissertation was important enough for me to have a hard copy.  May be a while before I am able to finish the actual book (lack of some supplies) but I do have the signatures ready to go.  

Title Page of My Book

  

Three Body Signatures and One Title Page/Acknowledgment Signature

Transition from one signature to the next.

Please excuse the photo-quality of the pics, but the message I'm trying to get across is that BookBinder 3.0 is a fine software for the production of signatures, ...you supply the text.