export booklet from indesign - print to pdf

[alm39395570]

can anyone help with print booklet dialog...

i want to export booklet by using print to pdf feature (i do not have any printer ).

why i cannot enter custom paper dimension when i go to print booklet dialog?

i am using win10 machine, indesign cc2018.

when i want to select printer from print booklet dialog i can onlly select :

1.postscript, 2.microsoft xps dcument writter, 3. onenote, 4. microsoft print to pdf, 5. fax.

when i select Microsoft print to pdf i can export my booklet BUT, i cannot export larger than A3 paper size and cannot enter custom paper size..i do not want to check scale to fit buuton.

can someone help my?

[Laubender]

Hi alm39395570 ,

read into this:

Print booklet to post script does not work

Basically you have to install a different PPD file to make that work.

And you have to use Printer: PostScript File.

Rob Day explained all this very well in the linked discussion.

Regards,
Uwe

[alm39395570]

thank you bro, i will consider that post

[Steve Werner]

The Print Booklet feature was never designed to use for commercial printing. Printers use more sophisticated ways of imposing pages which they can tune to work with their workflow.

[Derek Cross]

Are you going to print this yourself using your desktop printer, or are you putting it out to a commercial printer?

If you're going to print it yourself don't expect too much, unless you have  a high-end printer, that can accurately undertake duplex printing. If it's the latter, the printer would do the imposition, ask them what they want; if you can't find that out, use the InDesign Acrobat PDF Presets, select  PDF/X-4, select pages (not spreads), tick crop marks and also tick Use Document Bleed Settings.

[alm39395570]

no..i will take my document and go to professional print company...they have all the equipment like ploter and so on...

[Test Screen Name]

Most professional print companies will HATE it if you do imposition, and may charge you extra.