Why do indesign add a blank page in a 44 pages booklet when I impose it to print?

[carlatab]

I 've designed a booklet of 44 pages and when I impose them with booklet print a new blank page appears besides the 1st page and changes all the imposition.

How can I remove this page?

[Derek Cross]

If you're going to use a commercial printer, use the InDesign Adobe PDF Export feature, unless you've been given a different spec by your printer.  Select PDF/X-4, and in the Export Adobe PDF dialogue box select Pages (not Spreads),  and under the Marks and Bleeds tab select Crop Marks and tick Use  Document Bleed Settings.

It's the printers job to do the imposition.

[carlatab]

Thank you Derek, I wanted to make a model at home with my printer. I will do it from acrobat.

[rob day]

Here I have an Object on all of the pages except page 4, which is blank. Unchecking Print Blank Pages gives me this:

[rob day]

Make sure you have Print Blank pages checked in Print Settings>Print>General. Also, are the pages setup as normal facing pages as I'm showing in my Pages panel?

[Derek Cross]

I've never used this myself but it might be worth checking out (it's free): Impose Online - Free Online Imposition Software

[dannygarber]

Derek,

I've seen your advice and comments here over various queries. You are absolutely right in regards to letting the printer take care of imposition (and trapping). I've learned this sage advice from working at print shops (and for any print designer, it would do a world of good if they did some time in print shop, learning hands on).

One problem we've found is that if a client sends us an imposed file and they've done it wrong, we then have to take the time to print a proof, show the client, ask if this is what they want (100% of the time the answer is no), and then go about getting single page pdfs or spreads and imposing the job at our end. At the outset, the client believes that what they've provided us with is correct and it is not our place to question them. They incur a slight charge for the time and proofing, but in the long run they're not paying for X quantities that are wrong and must be reproduced. There are shops (and online printers) that push the work through and that's what we try to avoid.