Zinestack Roundup No.12
Pagination: Methods, Explainers, Tutorials, and Apps
📖 What is pagination?
Pagination just means figuring out what goes on each page of your zine, and in what order.
When you're making a zine—especially if you're printing it yourself—pagination helps you make sure that when everything is folded, stapled, or bound, the pages appear in the correct sequence.
Think of it like a puzzle: you’re arranging the pieces (pages) so they land in the right place when it’s all put together.
A Pagination Method to Remember
In this video, Dayna from catmothcrow shares a simple method for planning your page order—no math, no stress, and it works for any size zine.
Free Zine + booklet printing instructions from Jen Russell
Download, print, and distribute this free zine and you will experience pagination in action, learn how to print booklets from Adobe Acrobat, AND raise awareness. A win, win, win.
Yes—you can turn your Google Doc into a zine!
Amy Bornman shows you how:
How to print a risograph zine from SEE YOU
Spotlight on Spectrolite
Spectrolite is a project by ANEMONE, an artist collaboration between Amelia Greenhall and Adam Greenhall. I discovered the Spectrolite app* during a Risograph printing class and was blown away by how generous and genuinely useful it is.
If you're working with Riso, it’s a must—Carolyn’s post walks you through exactly how it helps. But even if you're not Riso printing, Spectrolite is a surprisingly handy tool for planning pagination, as Amy explains.
Currently, Spectrolite is available for Mac desktop only.
ANEMONE are so awesome and it’s wild that they make Spectrolite as a free tool. It’s like the old software days of shareware. I also recommend Amelia’s book Notes on Artist Publishing to anyone making zines and other art books.
OMG ! I have a new obsession now ! Thanks ☺️