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Print Booklet won't let me because of multiple page sizes...?

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February 25, 2011
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Dialog box:

"The active document uses multiple page sizes Print Booklet works only with documents that use a consistent page size."

OK, but the page sizes are all the same.

Help?

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JohnKramerDesign

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Tried all solutions mentioned above except 3rd-party plug-ins.

The only thing that worked was going to Indesign CC.

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chrisnaylor

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I only recently cane across this problem of an unequal page size error after resizing documents when trying to use InDesign CS6 Print Booklet.

Can anyone remember if the problem applies to Windows or Apple versions of InDesign or both?

I'm on InDesign CS6 running under Windows 10.

BobLevine

Community Expert

This discussion dates back more than 10 years. Please start a new one with full details of your system, printer and file specs.

I am locking this discussion.

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igraphicartist

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I was getting the same error message when trying to print to booklet from some pdfs I'd pulled in and resized.

Sometimes I can just make a new pdf of the file I've resized and then pull that into a new document and it will work.

Today I tried the tool using different pages to get it narrowed down to the problem page. On my document it was the first page.

I tried to delete the page, pull in a new master page and recopy the text to the page but it still didn't work.

Then I pulled in a new blank page that was not a master page and copied the copy back onto it and it worked.

Hope this helps someone else.

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pete006

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Has anything been done to fix this yet?

Hello? Adobe?!

Don't make me go back to the devil that is Quark!!

MrTIFF

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Oh, no, that would be a fate worse than death! ;-)

A much better alternative, (even AFTER Adobe fixes that bug, IF they fix that bug,) is to just use IDImposer. I have been getting a tremendous number of kudos from users on it. (I'm the ex-Adobe developer.)

For now at least, it's free. A license key is posted on the download site, http://IDImposer.com .

Best regards,

Stephen

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cherelynd

Inspiring

Has this bug been fixed? To me it is a bug as I have made sure that all the page sizes are A4, the document layout is also set to A4. I've even tried changing them all to A3 then back again. I agree with Steve Werner on this one. I think it's a fantastic tool but I am a prepress person so can imagine the minefield that clients could unwittingly create. It seems like once you've changed the page size in the pages pallet that there is no way to reset it. Even if it is A4 InDesign can only see that there was different page sizes at one point.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

As far as I know it's still a problem.

There are a couple of threads going now, I think. I'm not sure if anyone has tried export to .idml, but I suspect I probably did on a file I was testing for someone else. You can give it a whirl, though. My recollection was the only way to reset was to copy/paste in place form the bad file to a new one.

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cherelynd

Inspiring

Funny you should mention idml. This job was done by a student in cs6 and I had to export to idml for cs5. So I can confidently say that the idml workaround doesn't. Hopefully it will be fixed at some point. I ended up exporting to PDF with bleed, no trims. Used place multiple page PDF script and print booklet from the new A4 doc

Peter Spier

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Did you use the page tool?

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GeofferyHAuthor

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well, yes.

I was given a document that, instead of it being one ID document that contained multiple pages, it was many ID documents with just few pages per document, so I had to merge all of the individual documents into one continuous file, in the process I found that some of the documents were A4 instead of Letter.

After everything was brought in I did make sure to change any A4 pages to Letter, so all the pages are now the same. Will it not work that way?

CS5, MacPro, Leopard.

Steve Werner

Community Expert

I have to say, frankly, that I think the page tool is of limited usefulness in a print workflow, and that it is going to be easily misunderstood by users who will try to do things with it that just won't work, or that cause major complications for prepress -- sort of in the same vein as abusing transparency when what you really want is a tint.

Actually, I have to disagree with you, Peter, about the Page tool.

While I agree that it can be confusing to newcomers (as many of InDesign's tools are), it has great utility in printing. Two example are creating gatefolds or book covers. I wrote a blog post about this: http://indesignsecrets.com/introducing-multiple-page-sizes-in-indesign-cs5.php

You can also create a nice presentation of an identity package using multiple page sizes with this feature: http://indesignsecrets.com/creating-multiple-page-sizes-in-cs5—part-2.php

In the print dialog box, there a new widget for selecting all pages of the same size, if you're printing directly from the document. And creating a PDF is easy because PDF files have always supported multiple sizes and orientations.

As usual, your commercial printer will have to get up-to-speed on new techniques, and you should communicate with them ahead of printing time.

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