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Dan Poynor
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May 12, 2010
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How To Create Printer Spreads PDF for Saddle Stitch Booklet?

  • May 12, 2010
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I need to output a PDF in printer spread format for a saddle stitch booklet from InDesign.

After installing CS5 Master Suite on my upgraded Mac OS X 10.6.2 MacBook I can't figure out how to do that though.

Has anyone figured this out?

Thanks,

DAN

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    Correct answer Was DYP

    Oh right.

    File>Print Booklet

    Set it up

    >Print Settings...

    >>Printer>Adobe PDF

    I know it's not obvious. I'll post a comment there to clarify.


    File>Print Booklet

    Set it up

    >Print Settings...

    >>Printer>Adobe PDF

    Not possible on 10.6.x. Use Printer Setting / PostScript® File, then distill to the settings of your choice in Acrobat Distiller.

    Doyle

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    SmartGraphicArt
    SmartGraphicArt
    Inspiring
    May 29, 2011

    Having the same issue. When I use the Print Booklet option and go through the settings to print to Adobe PDF it seems to be saving, flattening the file, etc., but I don't know where it's saving to and I can't find the PDF anywhere after it saves. Any ideas? Is it really saving to a PDF or just going through the motions?
    SGA

    Peter Spier
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    Peter SpierCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 29, 2011

    If you have Snow Leopard, it's just going through the motions. You'd need to print to file, then distill, or use an imposition script and export spreads.

    InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Acrobat’s Adobe PDF Printer Replaced in Snow Leopard

    SmartGraphicArt
    SmartGraphicArt
    Inspiring
    May 29, 2011

    That's what I was afraid of. We bought CS5 during the changeover to Acrobat X and it came WITHOUT Acrobat Pro. We still haven't gotten our license and I might end up to have to buy a standalone version. Bummer. Tried firing up my old CS3 on the PC but of course the version of distiller was not recent enough to work with the 9.0 that Indesign CS5 prints to. Come one Adobe, with all of your incompatible upgrades you're starting to look like Apple.

    Was DYP
    Was DYP
    Inspiring
    May 12, 2010

    Use Print Booklet, print a postscript file and then distill it.

    Or you could check this link out.

    http://bitbucket.org/codepoet/cups-pdf-for-mac-os-x/wiki/Home

    Don't know if this would work as I have not tried it.

    Doyle

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    Eugene TysonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 12, 2010

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-704ba.html

    No?

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    Dan PoynorAuthor
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    May 12, 2010

    Eugene - where on that page does it say how to create PDF of the booklet?

    Please be specific and don't just send links to seemingly related documentation.

    BobLevine
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    BobLevineCommunity Expert
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    December 28, 2011

    Well, it did smack a little of ungratefulness when I read it too... besides, I'm on a Mac running 10.6.8, and I still found your directions, although for Windows, very helpful. The actual dialogs, and even the placement of the printer settings buttons were practically identical from those depicted in the screenshots.

    Personally, I'm just surprised that this isn't a more automated process within InDesign. Its not a terribly unusual request from print houses to provide properly impositioned printer spreads to keep the production costs down and it seems like a relatively straight forward print/design need so the long standing omission is peculiar to say the least.


    rcbmoose wrote:

    Personally, I'm just surprised that this isn't a more automated process within InDesign. Its not a terribly unusual request from print houses to provide properly impositioned printer spreads to keep the production costs down and it seems like a relatively straight forward print/design need so the long standing omission is peculiar to say the least.

    I couldn't possibly disagree with that more. Any modern printer is likely to charge you extra to dismantle an imposed document.

    The only printers that would want this are little mom and pops or printers too stretched to buy real imposition software.

    Print Booklet was never intended to replace professional level imposition software.

    Bob

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