Create Booklet App Reviews

I can’t seem to figure out how to just add text. And there is virtualy no useful help menu that I can find. Waste of money at this point. Very frustrated

Create Booklet might be a ‘one trick pony’, but what a pony; what a trick! This wee app with its ease of use and iron-clad reliability has become an essential in my editing and layout business. Recently, it rescued me when a booklet I was making within another app swapped even pages with odd ones and customer service for that app told me that it is ‘a known issue.’ Within minutes Create Booklet had taken the plain, vanilla pdf of the booklet, paginated it properly and allowed me to export a correct pdf. It warned me of a margins problem, and allowed me to correct it with ease. I can recommend this app without hesitation or reservation of any kind. For Scout troops, community leagues, lodges, churches—anyone who could benefit by producing a booklet instead of stacks of paper—this app is an excellent investment!

This worked exacty as advertised. I was given a pdf and needed to turn it into a booklet. Create Booklet had useful features like “zoom” to fill out the pages, and even gave extremely helpful tips automatically before printing on the proper “two sided” terminology the printer I had was using to make sure I selected the correct options for 2 sided printing so that it wasn’t upside down. Was trying to use some demo software that had page limits and wanted $50 for the full version, so $10-ish for this was a good deal and worked exactly as advertised/needed.

The developper put much effort into this and it shines! The overall feel & use is premium – a gem for a few dollars. The direct application integration to my Pages / Preview print service is the simplest. Great customer support to work out some bugs on my older Mac. Tried another of his apps (Good Times) and just as equally well thought out. Update: With every new iteration comes better features. Now can directly open via my documents folder. Also added a landscape mode for a top hinged booklet (as a check book or automotive tally).

I’m a casual user - I make booklets for my children, about one a week. I’ve used a few free solutions, including online, and a few commercial titles in free (limited) mode. Create Booklet is the most user friendly app with no limitations that I can think off. It is the cheapest non-free solution, and it is much more user-friendly than anything I saw, free or commercial. Thanks for this app!!!

I purchased this application in order to make booklets when I found out that that was another thing you can’t do on a MAC. So I assumed that this app would have figured out what needed to happen. However, I can’t believe that the app is being sold, in my case for @$13.50 and you can ’t just print the booklets the way you would like, you have to jump through a bunch of hoops first or you will have every second page upside down. I’ve wasted a lot of paper and ink so far. I would like to make lyric booklets to fit in my guitar case neck…(so long)…I was hoping there would be a few simple templates…for short booklets…long booklets…etc. but no. You have to print using manual duplex setting…and it is not easy to set margins etcetera…quite complicated and with criptic instructions…Also, I had to download separately a PDF function for my printer, in order to print booklets. I hope this is helpful for the developer… because this would be very useful to me if it worked properly.

It does exactly what I need. Developers are fast in fulfilling new requests.

Putting together a booklet by cutting, pasting, re-copying, and such is a huge pain and wastes time and paper. The task of organizing and laying out printing pages so that they are in the right order and orientation is called imposition. They are not many imposition apps in the world, and most of they are made for professional printers (and therefore are expensive and complicated) or too simple to be useful (like the built-in Layout section of the standard print dialog). Create Booklet is perfect for someone who makes booklets for small manuals, church bulletins, or user guides. Also a great way to save paper archives (a booklet takes 1/4 the amount of paper as a single-sided doc). Create Booklet has almost all features an app like this needs for non-professional use: landscape and portrait layouts, signatures (sub-booklets for longer docs), compensation for “creep” (when multiple sheets are folded together), printing 2-up. Also lets you add page numbers when printing, and print books that open on the left (as with Hebrew).

Why Apple doesn;t have a print layout option that allows me to fold the two-up sheets into a booklet and staple on the edge, is a mystery. But they dont. This app fills a need. You may not have realized you had this need, but when you do, youll want "Create Booklet" and youll thank the developers!

—Not intuitive —No online help —Odd installation. I first had to install the app, then had to download and install something else to update my menus to reflect the Create Booklet app. —Very cumbersome to use - too many steps and required to get the booklet the way I want it. —Documents with a total page count that is not a multiple of four seem to confuse it. E.g., I was able to get it to correctly set up a booklet that had 16 pages, but it did not correctly set up a document with 17 pages. For the 17-page booklet, it added 3 blank pages within the booklet (not at the end) to give it a total of 20 pages. —Additionally, this app simply shrunk my pages for me so that each fit on half of an 8-1/2 by 11 (which made my text far too tiny to read), and reordered the pages so that they would print as a booklet (again, with the caveat that the total number of pages had to be a multiple of 4). —I regret this purchase and have uninstalled the app. From now on, I will wait until there are a significant number of positive reviews about a given app in the App store before I buy. —For booklets only, I am going back to MS Publisher until I can find an equivalent app for my Mac.

I used the free version of this program for years so I am happy to pay for it. However, the install process is terribile. The worst part is that, in order to install the PDF print service (the one that allows “create booklet” to show up as an option in the print dialog box), it directs you to a webpage that is down. So no print service for me yet — though the program itself works fine. Also, if you are using a previous version they want you to manually delete the old print service. It’s not clean and I suspect that it will confuse some users. Still, it is a good program so it’s probably worth the hassle. But because of the bad install process I am taking off two stars.

i bought fo r aschol project and its usless doesnt help it redirects some other pdf thing and that website is down so ya...

Any document I open in this program automatically gets a 1” margin. I cannot figure out how to change this (even in the normal page setup section). There is no “help” in the help section. The program and its service is quite frustrating.

I wasted a bunch of paper trying to figure out how to make it work. They have a “setup manual duplex” wizard that I used, but it still didn’t print right on my printer. For whatever reason, I had to re-order the pages front to back before feeding back through a second time (which I thought was the point of the wizard. Perhaps better documentation or a video for manual duplex would help. I expect automatic duplex would have just worked. The interface itself isn’t bad. It did the job, which was printing a booklet (folded 8.5x11).

I’ve read the other reviews. All I can say is that it’s GREAT for my needs. Simple to use. The only glitch for me has been that it won’t save my desired paper size as default. That could be my error - not sure yet. I have had to “force quit” it once, but for I still think it’s incredible. I needed duplex printing on tabloid-size paper and I wasted 3+ weeks attempting to get my Mac and my go-to software to print. Nothing works. I found this app within a forum and was a little apprehensive due to the negative reviews. I am SO GLAD that I purchased it anyway!! On my mac I edited the PDF in my print GUI to include “Create Booklet. My page setup is normal - letter-size paper in portrait mode. When I print, I simply choose “Create Booklet” in my PDF pull-down menu, it opens up and it shows me what my document will look like (exactly!!) before I print it. I press “Print” and I have exactly what I wasted 3+ weeks attempting to make possible before purchasing this great app! After it prints, it then will offer to save my document (already correctly paginated, etc.) as a PDF. How cool is that??!! It has been exactly what I needed! Thank you.

I was a little skeptical to invest the $10 into this little app, given the old Workflow was working. The improvements in the standalone app are well worth the cost. Also, the newest version has apparently corrected the old review’s critique of the PDF Workflow installation. I found the whole process brief and self-explanatory. Do not let the old version reviews dissuade you from this excellent little app.

I’ve been using this software since it was a printer extension that you downloaded from the developer’s website. It was excellent then, and the app is even more excellent now, adding several helpful features like printing on different paper sizes and guiding the way you put paper into non-duplexing printers. I use it multiple times a week. Well worth the purchase!

I’ve used iPads for years. Why would I need to print anything? One word: Marginalia. There are apps that let you do some primitive PDF annotation on the iPad, and though it’s not impossible to use those to learn what I need to learn, it does takes me twice as long. I need to scribble freely. So, paper it is. Create Booklet helps me create things to scribble upon, and all is well.

After upgrading to El Capitan, nothing happened when I chose "Create Booklet" from my PDF services menu. A bit panicked, I did a web search and found this new version. Its absolutely worth the purchase price! Im so glad the developer has continued supporting and upgrading this. Thanks!

I bought this software several weeks ago and have used it numerous times since then. My favorite application is for using 11x17 sheets of paper to make 8.5x11 books. However, I’ve also used the software several times with 8.5x11 sheets to make 5.5x8.5 booklets. This software is a real timesaver! There is a second reason that you should be interested in this software: the development team responds to email suggestions! El Capitan has a PDF bug that offsets even pages that are cropped before printing. While ThePromiseKept had nothing to do with this OS X bug, they developed a workaround so that I could keep printing booklets! We’ve been in correspondence the last couple of days and they even ran my booklet through their hot fix patch before it hit the app store so that I could keep printing! They truly went above and beyond to help me get my AWANA project completed.