Problems with Print Booklet...

[Sundance-Kid]

Hi, 

So I'm trying to print a booklet to pdf so I can send it to a printers and get some booklets done. 

I have a custom size of 210 x 240 mm.

I have 32 pages so 14 spreads.

The book was created as a 'Document' in spread view with a front and back page single pages in the pages tab. 

The Problems:

1. When I go to print booklet Indesign randomly adds a white page in place of my back page and thus messes up the whole order of pages. 

2. When I open the postscript the pdf only registers half of each spread - even if it tells me there are 14 spreads I can only see the left half of each spread... 

Help would be greatly appreciated... 

Thanks..

[SJRiegel]

Your printer should accept a PDF, output as single pages - They will do the pagination on their end.

[Sundance-Kid]

Thanks and I wish they would - instead I'm asked to get this booklet ready printed as a pdf. 

I have checked the 'print blank pages' box btw and my preivew is still wrong... 

thanks... 

[BobLevine]

Would you take your car to a mechanic who said you needed to pick up oil and a filter before dropping the car off?

Find another printer and feel free to point them to this discussion. This is their job, not yours.

This is not what print booklet was designed for.

[Derek Cross]

"I have 32 pages so 14 spreads", this doesn't sound right.

Postscript is an obsolete approach.

Printing as a booklet is not the way to go.

If what you are stating the printer is asking, I suggest you change printer.

Normally your images would be in RGB color mode, you'd export single pages  (not spreads) to PDF/X-4 (using the InDesign preset) tick Crop Marks and tick Use Document Bleed Settings. Your printer would undertake the impostion.

[rob day]

Is the printer asking you to impose the pages? That would be unusual, imposition is the printer’s responsibility.

[Luke Jennings]

If you need to provide your printer with a Printer's spread PDF (lets assume your printer is a friend with a copy machine) your best option is to create a new blank InDesign file with 31 facing pages (with bleed). Under the Pages panel fly-out menu, turn off Allow document pages to shuffle and add a left side facing page.

Zoom out to around 12% and place your original InDesign file into your new document (place options- all pages) Starting on the 2nd page, place page 1, place the remaining pages in a zig-zag pattern, so in the end you will have Printer's spreads (32+1, 2+31, 30+3, 4+29, and so on. Export to a new spreads PDF.

[rob day]

lets assume your printer is a friend with a copy machine

The friend with the copy machine could print an exported document using Acrobat Reader’s Booklet feature.

[Luke Jennings]

The friend does not have Acrobat.

OK, they might have Reader.

[rob day]

Reader is freeware.

[Jeffrey_Smith]

If there are blank pages in the document, add a white frame to blank pages. This will insure the page will be included in the pagination of the print booklet process.

[rob day]

If there really is no way the printer will handle the imposition, you need the Adobe PDF 9.0 PPD—Device Independent doesn’t work that's why your pages are getting cropped. If there are blank pages check Print Blank Pages under General in Print Settings.

If you don’t have the PPD there is a link to the download page at the end of this thread

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/indesign-print-booklet-only-half-pages-exporting/td-p/107135...