Single Page PDF Export from InDesign?

I'm in the same boat.  I do theatre work and need to output the Script for the show with notes for blocking, props, lighting, sound etc, in a specific format.  One side is the written script with notes on which props are on stage this page, along with other notes, and on the left side, a map of the stage with other notes, including where the other props are.  At transition points where we have more time to move things, I have another layout for notes that lets me comment on what to do so everybody can follow along.  They are facing pages, primarily.  Many people have said that you lose the LEFT\RIGHT placement when you uncheck the FACING pages option.  This is only true if you haven't applied the master pages to them.

To set up a document with left\right page base, set up single page masters, not facing page masters.  This allows you to show the pages in your main layout as facing, but break them up later by turning off the option.  Some have said this is counter-intuitive; I can think of so many reasons why it's perfectly intuitive.  I can set up two masters, one left one right, and then place them on a first page set (the very first page is always right--cover page or blank for a placeholder, then two more pages facing, left for left right for right).  Now I can apply the masters and dupe the spread, which is actually the two pages, all I want.  I use scripts to first create my Main Script side, applying it to the Main Script master, where I place interactive note boxes for later use.  Then I create a MapNotes master, which has several interactive fields I can use with default text that I can adjust quickly in acrobat.  I have another script that places pages in between, every other page, that is based on the MapNotes master.  I then activate Facing pages and check.  Usually I add a placeholder page before running the second script, so everything comes out right left the way it should.  Then I add whatever I want to that placeholder as the cover of the booklet, usually a text form field that lets me print out different copies for different departments, with their department name on the cover and a date for when it was printed.  Once I finish with the first layout, I uncheck the facing pages, export and finish the rest in acrobat.  There's a lot more after that, but it works.

For those stuck with a layout in double-sided master layouts, you have options...

A. Copy the second side (right) from the main master, move it to another master of a single page, apply the new master to every even (or Odd) page, then delete the old master second page.  You may have to re-import content links.

B. Send it out as an adobe doc, then crop to show only the odd side, extract the pages to a folder.  Next, undo the crop, crop to show the even side, extract those pages to another folder, but leave the names the same.  Make sure you extract the pages as separate files.  Now create a pdf from multiple files, add the odd side, then the even side, then sort by filename by clicking the Name arrow until the first page is first, and it will be followed by a second file with the same name but a later timestamp date.  Combine them.  Now you have single pages.

As always, you can create a default view in acrobat either in IndesignCC or by opening the acrobat file, setting the view, and saving the file.  Next time the file opens, it will have that view.

I think that now the discussion has no use for any of the users so I don't feel to continue. We're now playing who's who game and that is not my interest, neither brings any value nor help.

But FYI ...If you submit images in RGB...it's your call, but be assured that there is "someone" making sure that your print comes out properly—transforming them in CMYK making sure that the colors look the same...in CMYK you have perfect control over the end result in print (NOT WEB), while all bright colors like RGB 0-255-255 will become 52% cyan and 13% yellow so CMYK 52-0-13-0 that is NOT what you are looking for... now multiply that for all the colors and you have a huge headache to deal with...if you are not concern of the accuracy of the colors.. well that is not a problem then.. convert the RGB color at the end of the process before making the PDF and you are good to go.. but, unfortunately for us professional photographers, we need perfect color accuracy and that is NOT achieved by submitting rgb to the printer and keeping fingers crossed...this principle is for vectors as well.. try to send a vector logo in RGB and then be sure that your client will call you back.. and he will not be pleased at all .. BTW in a magazine there are a lot of vectors... those must be create in CMYK as well...(you know old school...otherwise known as the correct way to do things!)

(I work for National Magazines, I work with AGFA and Heidelberg and Oris, CTP Computer To Plate systems—Google it...trust me no printer ever asked me RGB.. but let's not go there because it would start a neverending story about color coding, profiles, trapping, saturation points and who knows what else).. so I'll keep my work flow you can keep yours, but please don't say that mine is "old" ...we really don't want to go there.

A little 2¢ ...when you state "Having an underpowered machine is also irrelevant. Having the proper tools is part of the job."

I find this wrong...(sorry to point this out...I think that we really started with the wrong foot) We are on a forum that has to "help" as much as possible who is working on older machines as well as who has newer and more powerful tools...

always 2¢ ...(wow your getting great bangs for your bucks)

if using mac, just open in Preview, view thumbnails on the left hand side and delete the pages you don't want, save, done.

Hi,

Exactly what you want:  Export individual book documents to PDF | Peter Kahrel

One of the more clever scripters I know!  Thanks Peter.

Open the multipage pdf document in Photoshop. Photoshop will prompt you to select the pages that you want to open. Save the opened pages as individual files, be it pdf, psd, tiff, or whatever you want. Easiest way yet.

There's also http://indesignsecrets.com/page-exporter-utility-peu-5-script-updated-for-cs3.php