see we assemble
printing it
ok. so. you should have a pile of 8.5x5.5 pages you wanna perfect bind. heres the tricky part:
we want to print all the pages like they're single-page pamphlets. this is not what the 'booklet' setting in the print config does. afaik this is not trivial to do through any default thing on a computer.
i use a mildly janky piece of software called pdfbooklet to do this.
these settings work fine for me to turn your pdf into a bunch of these.
pdfbooklet will automatically open the result pdf in whatever you use to read pdfs, which for me is foxit pdf but hopefully, hopefully it doesnt really matter.
im paranoid and i swear to god that if i ever print without at least double-checking all the settings then foxitpdf insolently prints it incorrectly. so, here. paper size should be Letter (which is different from A4!). i prep everything to print in monochrome because i like how it looks but do whatever you want.
do whatever you want for the other stuff but you want to be sure about Flip on Short Edge
all in all you should end up with something like this. ive yelled at it a lot to not scale anything ever, because of how i prep things. mess around and see what works for you. mash print and cross your fingers