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_Myrna_Larson_
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May 5, 2007
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Fix CS3's Print Booklet !!

  • May 5, 2007
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The Print Booklet feature in InDesign CS3 is a step backward!

CS2's InBooklet could create a new document. I BADLY need that feature, as I must print odd spreads in landscape mode, but even numbered spreads in reverse landscape mode.

Having to export/print to PDF, then rotate the pages in Acrobat and print from there is unnecessarily cumbersome.
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    Sue Sayers
    Participant
    April 9, 2009

    Wow what a drag.  I work in a print shop and didn't realize it (just updated) and made a 60 page 5.5 x 8.5 book, some spreads reach across both pages.  I went to make a book and bamm!   Gone!!   Now what am I going to do.  I need to make the book so that 60 and 1 are page 1 etc.  Then I take that page and 58 and 3 and put that up on 11x17.  No will I have to make the whole thing into a pdf file, place it into CS2, make the book and then open that in CS4?  What a mess!   Any one have an idea how to do that easier.  I tried the script farther down this list and couldn't get it to work.

    Thanks for ANY help

    Sue

    Peter Spier
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    Peter SpierCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 10, 2009

    I guess I don't understand your problem, here.

    What exactly isn't working with Print Booklet in CS4?

    What version did you make the file in to begin with?

    Why are you not able to make the script work?

    Peter

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    Sue Sayers
    Participant
    April 11, 2009

    Okay, what I need it to do is like before.  I want to take my 60 page half/letter sized book and start inbooklet, have that make a new document that will turn it into spreads for me.  page 60 and page 1 will be on one spread.  Page 2 and 59 will be the next, etc.  From there it would still be manual so don't worry about that part.  The thing I need is the new document with the spreads.

    As for the script.  I guess I don't know what I am doing.  When I tried to unzip it, some files would not unzip, but I still copied the files into adobe/presets/scripts and they wouldn't work.  They weren't in automation.  I usually don't use scripts, so I don't know what I am doing.

    I just updated from CS2 to CS4.  I opened the old document (from last years book) in CS4 and started making my changes.  Saved it and went to create the spreads when I noticed that feature was gone.  So now, of course, I cannot open that document in CS2 and do it there.  I would have to export them into pdf files, place them into a new document in CS2 and then create the spreads from the old program.

         This isn't just a small problem.  I do this a lot where I work - - Greenfield Printers.   I make these kinds of books all the time.  I guess until I can get this working I will go back to working in CS2.   I just don't know what else to do.    I cannot be going through all that extra work.  Time is money they say:) ....

    Peter Spier
    Community Expert
    Peter SpierCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 3, 2009
    Hanna,

    You must copy the script into one of the script locations that InDesign uses to store them. Typically users install scripts for their own use in their user profile under ..[user name]\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign\Version 6.0\en_US\Scripts\Scripts Panel, but you can put them in the application scripts folder instead and they become available to any user with access to ID.

    The fastest way to find the scripts folder is probably just to open the scripts panel, then right-click on a script and select "reveal in Explorer."

    Peter
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    _Hanna_Cevik_
    Participant
    April 3, 2009
    dave - i am not a trained designer but self taught. i have a file that print booklet cannot handle for some reason, so wanted to try your script. i run vista and i dont understand how to get the script to work - i'm stuck at "to access the script use view/automation" - where? and what happens next? sorry!
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    _Stephen_Carlsen_
    Participating Frequently
    December 13, 2008
    If Print Booklet isn't doing exactly what you want:

    Booklet CE (a script) creates a new, 2-up, imposed InDesign document. From there you can export directly to PDF, or print to either device-dependent or Device Independent PS, or print directly to any printer. Handles page-spanning objects properly, and can optionally add printer marks. Mac and Windows, CS1 through CS4.

    Contact me (see website) if you have any questions or problems.

    Technically shareware, but you can use it free of charge indefinitely if you don't mind a bit of occasional nagging.

    http://products.carlsenenterprises.com

    - Stephen
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    _plumeragent_
    Participating Frequently
    December 13, 2008
    That'd be cool if I could use the Device Independent PPD, but this project is finished, so maybe in a few months (it's a quarterly magazine).
    kellyjaye1
    kellyjaye1
    Known Participant
    December 13, 2008
    I was thinking the same thing. Quark is a pain to get to export to a PDF properly, heck its a pain to get it to print on paper the way you want! Pagemaker with me, i can never trust fonts to come through properly on other computers from the one it was made from with PDF's it makes. With Office programs, it never wants to embed fonts unless you do a PS though I believe Publisher is a little better about it.

    I never realized PS files were meant to be sent to other people to distill. I figured they had to be distilled from the computer that created them

    I dont remember the steps i go through when dealing with the device independent setting but I thought there was some option for Print to Size or something like that, making the PS to print in whatever size the file is thats sent to them
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    _plumeragent_
    Participating Frequently
    December 11, 2008
    That's good to know, thanks Peter! Unfortunately, I don't have direct access to the printer, he's helping through a third party...and the third party is very busy and not very responsive, but I can't complain since it's all volunteer help! Anyway, it turns out it was the Device Independent PPD that was causing me grief. I got a workaround using a PPD for a compatible printer, so I hope it works for them.
    Peter Spier
    Community Expert
    Peter SpierCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 10, 2008
    Call the printer and ask. Often this is a request they make because they are used to dealing with files from Quark which was notoriously bad at exporting PDF. 9 times out of ten you can even send an exported PDF using the PDF/X-1a preset and they'll never even know it wasn't distilled.
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    _plumeragent_
    Participating Frequently
    December 10, 2008
    It seems the same to me, but it's requested by the printer, who is beyond my control. That's life, as they say...
    Peter Spier
    Community Expert
    Peter SpierCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 10, 2008
    Are you really gaining anything by printing to Postscript and distilling instead of printing direct to Adobe PDF where you have access to controls?

    Peter
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