Print to PDF option gone

[Chiefs420]

I use Print Booklet quite a bit and have always been able to choose to print as a PDF. Since the update it appears this option is gone? Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks!

[Eugene Tyson]

Export to PDF and then print from there - it has a booklet feature too.

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/acrobat/kb/print-booklets-acrobat-reader.html

Print to  PDF should still be in InDesign - but I think it's better to export to PDF first anyway.

[BobLevine]

Mac or Windows? 

[660 M]

You are not alone. I have struggled with this all week in trying to print pdfs to a catalog. I am having the exact same problem.  The export option is not as crisp. Any suggestions would be great. Thank you.

[660 M]

Sorry, Windows version

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

The 'print to PDF' function is almost wholly inferior to a proper export. However, export does have more options and more settings; it sounds as if you have chosen a low-quality export option ("Smallest file size"?) instead of "High Quality Print" or the one that should be used for nearly all printing output, "Press Quality."

There are also choices of preset standards that conform to industry requirements, and choosing the wrong one of those might produce results you don't expect.

Try your export again and make sure "Press Quality" is selected as the option.

[Chiefs420]

Ridiculously you can't export to pdf as booklet, only print.

[rob day]

Ridiculously you can't export to pdf as booklet, only print.

Hi @Chiefs420 , A commercial printer would want to handle the imposition at their output, so I don’t think you will ever see imposition as an InDesign Export feature.

InDesign’s Print Booklet does have some advantages over Acrobat’s limited Booklet printing—you can do perfect binding, set Creep, set a space between pages etc.

If you are doing your own printing and not sending the PDF out to a commercial printer, you can try this imposition script, which imitates Print Booklet’s features, but Exports the PDF:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2wjwe13fsrw9iszebo15e/h?rlkey=nwt5o3uex31fgra7oj15qvs7z&dl=0

The dialog:

[BobLevine]

Well, it is called "PRINT booklet" and it is not and never has been intended as a replacement for professional imposition. 

[Chiefs420 · Accepted solution]

I went in and re-added acrobat as a printer and that fixed it.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Well, it restored a quickie option designed for tools like Word and the thousands of apps that have no PDF export. It's an option best left to those second-tier apps; InDesign has a powerful PDF export option built in for very good reasons.

As for booklet printing, the preferred method is to (ahem) export to PDF and let Acrobat's much more powerful and capable booklet printing option take it from there.

But you're of course welcome to use the processes developed for office-grade work if they suit you better. More or less makes using InDesign at all a moot point, IMHO.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

I noticed my was gone. I was wondering if it had something to do with the "new and improved" Adobe Acrobat interface. I switched back to the previous interface and repaired the Acrobat installation (under the Help menu). It came back. 

When I get time to test it, I'm going to switch back to the new interface and see if it disappears again.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

It's here on my system, with the New Acrobat interface active. I rarely do anything to system setup but let the CC manager update things.

[Eugene Tyson]

The new acrobat is painful