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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.

    Peter Spier
    Community Expert
    Peter SpierCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 28, 2011

    rmbnoose - "practically identical" doesn't apply since the screens DON'T EVEN EXIST on Mac. Eugene didn't mention using the "Postscript file" option in the screen shots., and even if I do use the Postscript file option those screen still don't exist. I don't know what you're comparing the Windows screenshots to.

    In some forums, hijacking someone's question with off topic comments is considered impolite.

    It would be nice if folks here could focus more on quality in answering a specific question and less conjecture.

    Stop flaming the thread please.


    Dan,

    Please lighten up. Eugene made an honest mistake, for which he apologized at the time, and rcbmoose has found the ingormation useful, even if you did not. That's the whole point of these forums. I don't see any evidence of "flaming."

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