Page 1 is the top half of your poster, like so. I lined up the top of my poster with the top margin on the page. I copied my whole poster onto the page full size and just covered up the bottom half with a filled white box. It won't print anyway since it's out of the print range, but just to keep myself straight.
Page 2 is the bottom half of your poster. I lined up the bottom edge of my poster with the bottom margin of the page. (Some of the stuff in the center will overlap when you print, but that's okay - it gets cut off.)
Page 3 is the top half (the first 8 pages) of your book. It doesn't matter where on the page you place them (as long as they're within the margin) since you'll cut off the excess anyway. I used a bounding box so I knew where to cut after I printed.
Page 4 is the last 8 pages, or the bottom half of your book. Same idea as above.
Page 5 is your cover with a 1/8" to 1/4" allowance for a spine added in. (You can see my crop marks for the spine in the screen cap.)
Now all you have to do is export your 5-page doc as a .pdf, take it Trabant or wherever, print it 12"x18" without any scaling and you're set. How I assembled it was to line up the crop marks and duplex the sheets first (page 1 with page 3 and page 2 with page 4), then cut out both sheets at once so I got nice even cuts.
If anyone has any more questions, you can Twitter, Facebook, or text me. Hope that was helpful!
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