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Roger Harvey
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February 12, 2018
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Printing booklets from pdf in Acrobat Pro DC

  • February 12, 2018
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I have Acrobat Pro DC running on a Mac (OS 10.13.2) and printing on a Konica Minolta Bizhub 227

I want to print multi-page pdfs into a booklet using A3 paper,  4 x A4 pages per sheet.

I cannot find a way of:

a) getting them to print 100% ( I get 2 pages which take up just over 1/4 of an A3 page)

b) avoiding one side of the print being upside down

I can't see any instructions or forum answers that deal with this.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

Unfortunately, Acrobat does not provide a general page imposition feature to do what you want. There are some third party Acrobat plug-ins such as from Quite Software that can do this for you. The built-in n-up and booklet printing features simply don't have the level of control that you need.

Sorry!

          - Dov

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robert.rex
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April 28, 2021

I've tried everything in InDesign and Acrobat to get my booklet to print correctly, to no avail. After reeding Dov's post I got Quite Software's inposition plug-in. This allowed me to set up the pdf as spreads instead of pages. The spreads still collated in the wrong order. After many tries I suffled the spreads in the thumbnail wine in Acrobat so that they printed in the correct order. That was not intuitive. Inside spreads appeared to be outside and sequences set in what looked almost random. Now it prints correctly and folds correctly and reads correctly buy will not collate the separate booklets. If I pring four they are all folded and stapled as one. This seems to have no fix. The dialog for printing when set up as spreads in pdf is the first option,

size, not booklet, so the printer is not being told that there are groups of pages that are collated. Any ideas?

 

Dov Isaacs
Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
Legend
February 13, 2018

Unfortunately, Acrobat does not provide a general page imposition feature to do what you want. There are some third party Acrobat plug-ins such as from Quite Software that can do this for you. The built-in n-up and booklet printing features simply don't have the level of control that you need.

Sorry!

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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Roger HarveyAuthor
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February 14, 2018

Dv,

Thanks for clearing that up. This seems odd for such a highly developed application. I would have thought that to print A3 booklets would be a basic feature. I’ll have s look at the plug-in you have suggested.

Thanks

Roger

Abambo
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AbamboCommunity Expert
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February 14, 2018

If you have Indesign at your disposal, you can do a manual imposition and creating a new document fitting your needs. It's cumbersome but it works great for someone who has not specific imposition software at his disposal..

The booklet printing function in Acrobat works, but has some design flaws. The biggest is, that it does not allow for a 100% print. For printing an A4 document as booklet on A3, it works fine if you do not mind the slight scaling.

(Screen shots are for Windows 7 OS)

...and the printer properties:

May be "Landscape" works with the "Autorotate". I did not try that one.

The Printer Properties are for a Canon printer, but they differ rarely in principle from what you get in different printers. But as I said, there is no way to switch of the "fit to page" leaving borders even where there shouldn't or needn't be.

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