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2008-12-09T15:34:14

I recently used the print booklet command (CS3) to impose an a5 doc onto a4 page size and used Adobe Acrobat as the printer to capture the booklet as a pdf.
The Indesign Preview shows the pages imposed on A4 pages but the resulting pdf has the page info at 50% on an a4 page. I can zoom to the page and print "current page" using scale to fit page.
I can print the imposed booklet directly to a printer ok but if I make a pdf its scaling down. I thought it must be in the distiller settings but no luck. Any ideas?

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DzinrGrl — 2008-12-04T08:23:56

Any way to rotate pages for InBooklet? I want the pages to attach top to bottom, not left to right (like a calendar). Thx.

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Bob Bringhurst - Adobe — 2008-11-17T08:11:32

Someone else mentioned that the figures in the creep description are reversed.

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2008-11-17T00:10:55

I've never used Print Booklet before and am looking at using it for the first
time as I have creep to contend with for a particular job and was hoping this
was going to be a simple solution to an otherwise very manual job.

I tested it with a file and I can see how it's working and how it's contending
with the creep amount that I entered in but it seems to be working in reverse
and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong.

The finished size of the book is 210mm wide and I have calculated the creep
to being 2.75mm. But when I type in all the relevant information it's the
outside spread that ends up being the smallest with the inner most spread
being 210mm wide when it should be the other way round!!

What have I missed?

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2008-10-13T21:59:14

Hi All
i'm trying to print a booklet of a paper size of A4 on an A1 sheet. i've adjusted the print settings to be A1, and adjusted the paper orinetation but i couldn't make it to but 8 papers on the the A1 sheet. it only gives me 4 A4 papers (that's becuase i've used 4-up consecutive booklet type). is there any option in the booklet printing to make it print 8 or 16-up consecutives?

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2008-08-31T10:47:03

See the topic called "Save backwards to previous InDesign versions":

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d4d.html

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2008-08-30T19:32:48

If in-booklet is gone (and that sucks) I used it all the time....

How do I bring a CS3 file back to a CS2 file, so I can use inbooklet

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Jash2008 — 2008-08-14T05:58:17

For MLSCHW and any others having trouble with blank pages going missing...

This has been driving me crazy all day, every time i used 'print booklet ' the page order got all messed up due to blank pages being omitted.

I assumed that by selecting 'Print Blank Printer Spreads', InDesign would leave them in, and impose the booklet how *I* wanted it to be done, but it doesn't.

Eventually I found out you also need to select 'Print Blank Pages' in "Print settings/General/Option" as well. With both of these selected the 'Print Booklet' function of Indesign works just as I would expect, so I'm happy with it!

Cheers

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2008-07-15T08:17:17

I don't know why you can't post a new entry in the InDesign user forum. You can also try the InDesign Talk forum, which many of the same experts monitor:

http://www.listsearch.com/InDesign/index.lasso

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Kathe-t — 2008-07-14T16:13:24

Bob, I've been trying to use the forums for weeks. In some topics you will find an instruction saying to click the "Back to List of Topics" link and then select "Add Topic." but there is no such thing to select on the list of topics page. I have not been able to find any sign of a link to click, a button to push, or any other way to start a new topic nor did either of the topics I wanted to discuss come up in my forum search. Have I gone blind, is my browser not showing me the page correctly, or just what is my problem? Obviously SOME people are able to post new topics!

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2008-07-14T13:13:47

I don't know what's causing this. You may want to post this question on the user forum: www.adobe.com/support/forums

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Kathe-t — 2008-07-14T11:40:25

I'm trying to set up both machines in our workgroup to function in the same way, and saved the print presets from machine A to a folder from which I then loaded them onto machine B. The preset for printing magazine size spreads to our duplexing tabloid size laser printer works fine on machine A when doing booket printing. But when I tried to use that preset on machine B, it kept printing on letter size. I was able to go into the print settings from the booklet printing dialog and change the paper size back to tabloid, but when I got to the general tab in print settings the area that includes Spreads was grayed out, Spreads was no longer checked and I could not check it.

Printing to this preset on machine B by pressing ctrl-P works fine, and Spreads are showing up as checked. But the only way I could get booklet printing to correctly use the preset was to save the document with this preset and then select "Current Document Settings" from this list of presets in the Booklet Printing dialog. Both machines appear to be correctly set up with the correct print driver and both are showing the same PPD. What's going on here?

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2008-05-21T11:29:49

It's true that we can't bring back InBooklet because Quark now owns ALAP, but we can still improve Print Booklet. Feel free to request improvements on the Adobe website.

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2008-05-21T10:52:12

For everyone whineing about "Bring back InBooklet". they can't. Adobe was liscensing rights to include the InBooklet plug in by default into InDesign. the company that made that plug in was bought by Quark. So quit screaming at Adobe, Its not their fault. If you wanna scream at and hate someone, go scream at Quark. they are the ones who are responsible for Adobe no longer being able to include InBooklet. Just be thankful Adobe was smart engouh to give you the Print Booklet command.

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staceysiepmann — 2008-05-03T19:11:17

It would be very helpful to have a way of creating a file for booklets. I am
working with Adobe InDesign CS3 ME edition and need to create pdf's that
are in correct order for opening right to left.

One would think that Adobe could figure out how to do this without a third
party plugin.

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Virgoss — 2008-04-09T08:53:46

You might also try this online tool for booklet printing

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Dsternke — 2008-04-01T19:27:43

My wish is that I could print a book using the booklet settings. However only
the print dialogue box comes up when I click the print button on the book
window.

Also, as a prepress guy, files should always be saved to postscript and then
distilled through the setting your print shop provides (all they have to do is
email you their job settings). Doing this will solve the automatic black
problems (as long as you have set black correctly in the document as only
black) and a host of other issues that will make your work look a lot closer to
what you have seen on your screen.

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2008-03-06T06:41:06

You can create saddle stitch booklets in CS3. In this topic, click "Booklet Types" for more info.

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2008-03-05T23:49:36

Hi All

So what are the steps to create a Printer Pairs (Saddle Stitched Booklet) in
Indesign because SE Booklet feature (Save it to a new set of Indesign files
as CS2) missing in CS3.

Thanks
Keegan

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2008-03-03T21:04:26

I just wanted to voice my support to return to the inbooklet function of CS2.
The current version makes it too difficult to create mock up double sided
dummies. I miss it.

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2008-02-28T11:57:25

I'd like to put on preview mode of print booket 4 pages head-head. Theres
how make this kind of impose?

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MLSCHW — 2008-02-10T21:52:31

Beware if your document has blank pages or pages with only an empty text
frame. "Print Booklet" will remove such pages prior to imposition and add its
own blank pages where ever it seems fit.

A work around is to add a text from with an empty paragraph on the pages
that YOU intend to have blank.

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Ann L. — 2008-02-07T09:18:21

The lack of being able to create an imposed booklet file is a problem since our usual printer does not like pdf's because of the automatic black verses the black (and I do not understand this) is a problem. Why can't we print it to a file?

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2008-01-14T11:03:24

If you still have access to CS2, you can see that InBooklet was a 3rd party plugin from ALAP. Quark bought ALAP. No more InBooklet.

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2008-01-14T03:58:35

A useful script has been posted on the user forum which will create a pdf from a booklet, but the margins are altered.

Why does Adobe not address this issue of InDesign CS3 being unable to print an imposed booklet to pdf? It is such an important feature to be without.

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2007-12-12T12:24:53

I totally agree with everyone else. Bring back INBOOKLET. Is there a third party plug-in that might do this for us? Anyone know?

Thanks!

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2007-10-03T10:53:59

My printer wants an imposed Indesign file ready for print. We could do this with CS2 but not CS3. How are we supposed to send files with "printer spreads" to our printers. Bring back Inbooklet!!!!!

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2007-09-19T10:05:33

For double-sided printing without a duplexing printer, use the Print Odd Pages/Print Even Pages options in Acrobat or InDesign. After one set is printed, flip over the output, load it in the printer, and print the "other" pages.

The tricky part is determining the order of the pages when you put them back in the printer. Here's Anne-Marie's advice: "Put together a printer's dummy and figure out which spreads should print on the back of which other spreads. Number the spreads manually on the dummy (outside covers are spread 1, inside covers are spread 2, the spread with pg 32 on the left and pg 1 on the right is spread three, the spread with pg 2 on the left and pg 31 on the right is spread 4, and so on). If the PDF of the imposed booklet doesn't match your dummy, then drag spreads around in Acrobat's Pages panel in order to get them to match -- so they're in the right odd/even order."

There's a good article and discussion on booklet printing here:

http://indesignsecrets.com/print-booklet-in-indesign-cs3.php

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2007-09-19T06:06:05

My printer does not do automatic two sided printing. How do I print out my booklet? what the person doing my printing needs an imposed file on a CD?

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uosis — 2007-09-17T12:18:19

Trying to print a booklet in a printer that does not do automatic 2-sided
printing (Xerox 5750). How do we print all first side, then all 2nd side?
Setting the printer to print Odd pages only does nothing.