Fix CS3's Print Booklet !!

Reply to Dave's message, #30, re the download:

It must have been a bad download. I did try to unzip it, but got an error. After posting the message here, I downloaded again, and this one unzipped OK. No changes since the first release, right?

Good Thinking ,Bob. I forgot this is a platform-neutral forum and she didn't say which one she uses. :)

Jacki,

InBooklet organizes the pages into "printer's spreads" putting the front and back pages together and so forth. It does not set up the printer -- that's up to you.

For example, if you set up your newsletter as 8.5 x 11 facing pages (which is typically what you want to do for a lettersize newsletter that will be folded and mailed), InBooklet will "impose" 11 x 17 spreads (note that you need to work in multiples of 4 pages for this style of binding which is called two-up saddle-stitch) onto a new page size of 11 x 17. You must select the correct page size, positioning (centered) and orientation in the print dialog, which will appear after you click the print button. Printing on a sheet that is exactly twice the size of your page means you can't have any printer marks and you should set the margins in InBooklet to zero.

To get your printer to duplex you will need to click the "setup" button in the lower left of the print dialog and ignore the warning if it appears about making settings in the dialog. This will put you in another dialog which is the printer driver settings setup. Each of these is different, depending on the printer, so I can't tell you what to do from here, exactly, but if you look around you'll find the duplex settings. Typically you would want to set the duplex to "short edge binding" or "top to top" but you should run a test print and if it's wrong just change the setting.

Peter

Thanks Peter, found in Inbooklet but could not fathom it out.

When I try to print in duplex it comes back and tells me I cannot do this. I have only just loaded the software so trying to find out something about it. I print a lot of newsletter for the various charities I work with and want to be able to do this in InDesign now I have it.

Jacki,

InBooklet SE shipped as part of InDesign CS2 and in the Pagemaker plugins for CS1. If you didn't get it either of those ways, you're out of luck. Quark acquired ALAP, the plugin manufacturer and promptly took it off the market.

In CS3 the booklet functionality has been replaced with Print Booklet, which you will find under the File menu.

That said, you need to tell us a lot more than you want to prints both sides of a page on your duplex printer. You only need booklet imposition if you have a multipage document that you want to convert to two-page spreads and bind. The actual duplexing is handled in the printer driver.

Peter

Can anyone help me please.
How do I get Inbooklet, I want to print both sides of a page, I have a duplex printer.

That's the size of the file. Unzip it.

Dave

To Dave, messsage #24

I tried to download your script again, to see if you had made any changes. But this time I got only a 1307 byte file. Have you removed it from your site?

Myrna Larson

...and promptly killed all their plug-ins for Adobe products, including InBooklet.

'Twas a real shame. ALAP was a great company, run by people who cared about their customers. Quark, on the other hand....

"It's just too bad that Adobe Team didn't keep it."

Not like that was an option. Quark bought the company that made InBooklet....

T