Printing Multiple pages to Tabloid

[otto wilfredom85018022]

Hey guys, hope you can help me. 

I got a book in indesign (300 Pages) with page size 5.5x8.5 inches to save time, money and resources i need to print 4 pages in a tabloid page (11x17 inches).

I've exported the file with the original size from indesing to PDF and opened in Acrobat DC and tried to print using the multiple opcion, actual size checked and tabloid as the paper size selected, it printed on a printer capable of tabloid but it shrink the pages inside the tabloid that are original (5.5x8.5 inches) to (5x8 inches). If you sum the 4 pages(5.5x8.5) its and exact 11x17 so its a perfect fit. 

The thumbnails option doesnt work since this is going to print so i need their actual size.

Is there a way i can fit 4 pages of 5.5x8.5 inches into a tabloid (11x17 inches) keeping there original size?

Any help is much appreciated.

[Document Geek]

The trick is that you need to set up a custom paper size with no margins. Otherwise, Acrobat will automatically shrink your content to fit within the specified margins, regardless of the "Do Not Scale" checkbox.

[otto wilfredom85018022]

Hey Document_Geek, try it just like you said and remove the margins using a tabloid page(11x17) with 4 smalles pages(5.5x8.5) in multiple option but its still shrinks the original pages from 5.5x8.5 to 5x8

[ls_rbls]

There is still an option that you can configure through the thumbnailed preview pane.

Try this, open the the thumbnail view pane, click once on the first page to select it, then press the SHIFT key + END key to select all thumbnail viewed pages; right-clik on the selected items, select "Page Properties" from the context menu, and in the first tab labeled "Tab Order" tick the radio button that says "Use Document Structure" from the given  options.

See if this helps.

[ls_rbls]

Sorry , I didn't mean to write this over Document Geek guidance, I guess we were replying at the same time to your thread. Nevertheless may become handy one day

[Document Geek]

I'm confused. What does that have to do with printing a page multiple up on a sheet?

[ls_rbls]

I suggested that because I've seen quite a few Acrobat Pro users that get stuck with issues when they export from InDesign to Acrobat or other applications to Acrobat Pro. One of the main things observed is margins that seem to be bigger or that exceed the borders of the page viewed on the screen; also, unwanted page rotations that don't to get fixed by using printing preferences or other normal document editing features, for example. Even though the "Use Document Structure" is meant primarily to correct tabbing through items on a page, it seems to also fix the above mentioned issues. This is not documented elsewhere, this is a workaround that worked for me while I was helping other users with the issues noted above. Since he mentioned that he exported this document from InDesign to Acrobat, and was not being able to get a perfect fit, I thought that maybe he could use the original document structure instead of letting Acrobat assign its own page default structure (which is always defaulted to "Unspecified").

[otto wilfredom85018022]

ls_rbls, thanks for the suggestion. Tried in indesign but the thumbnail option put a shadow on the output of each inner page and has a different size that the actual size.

[ls_rbls]

The Page Properties work around that I suggested is not done through InDesign unless you meant that you tried it Acrobat Pro.

This work around that I suggested should be done using Acrobat Pro on the document that was exported to PDF from the InDesign application.

Do you mind sharing one more screenshot of the shadows and the pages output that you are describing?