Fix CS3's Print Booklet !!

Robert's points are well taken... but it DID do a good job on simple documents, which is the bulk of what I deal with... dare we hope for an even better tool?

For those who haven't already, you can go to:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

and express your desires for this feature.

>In addition to having very limited control over the quality and image resolution from the PDF "print" dialog, when I exported a project last night all of the text boxes had a white hairline around them -- it shows very clearly on those that are over images. No white hairline when using the regular PDF output.

Making a PDF through PrintBooklet will always flatten transparency since it is a print-to-distiller process, while exporting will leave the transparency live with many settings, hence the possibility of seeing "stitching" on screen in the PDF. This is a display issue only, which can be corrected by changing the view preferences in Acrobat.

Edit: As far as saying you have little control over image quality, you should have exactly the same control. If images are coming out poorly in comparison either your settings are different, or you are not sending "all" data in the graphics section of the print dialog.

Unfortunately you can't control other people's settings so you might get complaints, but since it is more likely you want to print an imposed document than it is to be viewed on screen, this is pretty much a non-issue. Other transparency flattening issues, however, may not be trivial, so it is imperative that you understand the proper handling of transparency and file organization any time you print to PDF.

All of that aside, I frequently use Dave Saunders' Build Booklet script for simple two-up impositions. http://pdsassoc.com/downloads/Buildbooklet.zip

It has let me down only once, and that was on a file that had sectioning in use. It turned out that having anything in the section prefix field (even though it was unused) tripped up the logic.

Dave is developing a newer version for distribution as shareware which handles multi-section documents with aplomb, and hopefully it will be available in the near future.

Peter

Yeah, we have the limited inBooklet in CS3, but may experience with creating PDF from it has been, well, bad.

In addition to having very limited control over the quality and image resolution from the PDF "print" dialog, when I exported a project last night all of the text boxes had a white hairline around them -- it shows very clearly on those that are over images. No white hairline when using the regular PDF output.

It was only 8 pages, so I imposed by hand (with one tricky oval image spanning pages 2-3), but heck, in CS2 I could have used the real inBooket and saved the time. (Curse you Quark for buying and locking us out of inBooklet!)

This really is something that Adobe HAS to fix...

There are some scripts that help:

Booklet CE
http://products.carlsenenterprises.com/
Produces PDF pages without the problem I had with inBooklet CS3. It's not fast, but it did a pretty good job.

I haven't found anything yet that makes a new InDesign document, which was really the charm of the full featured InBooklet -- impose then put in those last minute edits AND have full control of output... this is what I long for if anyone has any suggestions...

Of course we could shell out another $899 for Quite Imposing... seems like overkill for my little business though...
http://www.pdfstore.com/details.asp?ProdID=37

the search goes on...

Also see this thread: Robert Levine, "No booklet builder in CS3?" #1, 31 Jul 2007 6:43 am

See messages 1 and 10 of this very topic.

Dave

What happened to Inbooklet in CS3???!!! - what a disappointment to find it replaced by the Print Booklet command!

I used that "Create new document" function often... what has happened to it? Is there another way that I'm missing, other than making a PDF?

My daughter will turn 20 on Friday, so she's no longer much of a chore, but twin boys...

Congratulations!

Guess you won't be having much time for the forums any more. :)

Congratulations! I trust all are well.

The reason I didn't write this script in the manner of the earlier Build Booklet script is simply that that script is already written. This is another script that explores a different way of going about the job.

Dave

At 10:21 AM -0700 7/9/07, Dave Saunders wrote:
"...The minute I have to provide a UI for this script, it stops being a quickie job done on weekends and becomes a full-blown development effort with all kinds of considerations that add enormously to the scale of the job..."

Yup.