Printing from Acrobat to PDF 2UP Borderless

[Jason Burnett]

I have created a document in InDesign that I made 5.5x8.5 with full bleeds. Now I want to print it 2 up on an 8.5x11 page after reording the pages in Acrobat.

So in InDesign, I generate the PDF with no bleeds, exactly 5.5x8.5.

I run my script to reorder the pages like I want.

Then I print the document to PDF using the Adobe PDF printer.

I create a custom page size of 5.5x8.5 to accomodate the source PDF

Then I click MULTIPLE.

What is messed up is it asks for orientation. Do they mean orientation of my source document which is portrait or the resulting 2 up document which is landscape?

So the closest I can get shows the preview image with one page on the left, one page on the right (both pages are portrait but make up a spread that is landscape). I am careful to print at full size, but there is still a white border around each page. I never asked for a border, my source document is the perfect size to fill up half a page and I am printing 2up on the page, why is there a border?

I am so close to having this process worked out that it's wild. When I get this done, I know of so many people who will benefit from it. All I need to do now is eliminate the borders when printing 2 up in Adobe Acrobat while printing to PDF. 

Thanks for any help.

[Abambo]

I fear that you try using Acrobat for what it wasn't foreseen. You will need an imposition software to do what you want, or you do the poor man's solution and do this in InDesign and export an imposed PDF file. If I remember your prior posts well, I think that you have quite some pages. That will be some hard work to do if you do not script that.