Generating a book pdf as reader spreads

Hi John,

You’re right  that’s one of the quirks of working with Books. When you export an .indb with “Spreads” checked, InDesign only honours spreads inside each individual document. It won’t combine the last page of one doc with the first page of the next into a single spread.

A couple of workarounds:

• Export as single pages and then in Acrobat use View > Page Display > Two Page View with “Show Cover Page in Two Page View” unchecked. That way you’ll see the pages as spreads, even if the PDF itself is single pages.

• Merge the chapters into one InDesign file (or temporarily for export). That way the spreads will flow naturally across chapter breaks.

• Or, export normally and then use a PDF editor to rearrange spreads if you absolutely need them baked in.

You can view them as reader spreads in Acrobat, but you can’t force InDesign to export across separate documents in the Book.

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