Can you package, zip, and post the file on a server somewhere? ... View more

A few lines fuzzy or bold sounds as if it might be a transparency flattening issue. Is there any transparency in the problem areas -- drop shadow, blend mode, anything at all? ... View more

Try "Same As Source (No Color Management)" Peter ... View more

Could be a color conversion in the Acrobat print dialog. Click the advanced button and see what the color management settings are in the output section. Peter ... View more

>Didn't know I would get an answer in the space of minutes yesterday. That's pretty common, but not always the case. You can subscribe to your own posts, as well as any others that interest you, and you'll receive notification whenever something new is added. ... View more

For windows it would be C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign\Version 5.0\Scripts\Scripts Panel This is a hidden directory, so you would need to show hidden files first. ... View more

Those versions are indeed discontinued. My recollection is they were shipped as part of either Windows 2000 or Office 2000. ... View more

>It just sends it directly to my print que, Which print queue? When you right click on the PDF printer in the printers folder and select properties, what do you see for the port, and for the driver, which is under the advanced tab? Peter ... View more

mwc97, Printing to PDF requires the PDF virtual printer that is installed as part of Acrobat, and which should show up in the list of installed printers. When you use it you select it, like any other printer, but instead of sending the file to output on paper media you should be presented with a Save As dialog asking where you want to save the file and what you want to name it. You should also see a settings dialog where you can make adjustments to things like compression and color output. Once the file is saved Acrobat normally opens on its own with the file ready for viewing. Peter ... View more

John, The odd/even functionality is gone because you are not working with a new document whose new pages are the old spreads. I'm presuming you used this to print two sides manually on a non-duplex printer. Work around this by printing to PDF first, then print odd/even from Acrobat. Peter ... View more

Nor was InBooklet available for books in earlier versions. Anything big or complex enough to require being handled as a book probably needs professional imposition, anyway. If necessary, you can work around it by printing the book to PDF, then making a new document and placing the PDF before imposing using Print Booklet. Peter ... View more

Depends which "blue lines" you mean. By default, ruler guides are light blue, and can be hidden from the view menu or using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + semicolon . Also by default, bounding box edges on layer 1 are blue. Hide those using Ctrl + H. You can hide anything non-printing buy going into preview mode. Hit W if there is no active text cursor, or use the view menu or the button at the bottom of the toolbox. Preview mode has three states: Page only, bleed area, or bleed plus slug area. You can clear an individual guide by selecting it and hitting backspace or delete, or shift clicking or marqueeing a group of guides if you want to do several. Clear all guides, and this is going to seem strange, using Layout > Create guides ... and leaving the horizontal and vertical number fields at zero, then check the clear existing guides box. Peter ... View more

Ian, Fails how? Do you get an error message? Also, a service provider that wants you to impose for them isn't providing much service. Be careful. Peter ... View more

Ian, What problem are you having? Do you not have a virtual PDF printer available? Printing PDF booklets is one of the easier things to do with Print Booklet, and one I recommend all the time to people who want to print only ranges or need to manually duplex. Peter ... View more

Andy, You need to update to the most recent patch, version 4.0.5, build 688. It's available on the downloads page. Peter ... View more

It should be under the File menu. It's possible that you are using a workspace with customized menus that don't show it, but in that case I think there is a new command listed to show all menu items. Peter ... View more

In CS3 InBooklet, which was no longer an option, has been replaced by PrintBooklet, which, as you know, has some limitations compared with InBooklet, but is much more reliable for having the limitations. If you never use lists or cross-spine items you would probably never have noticed the disasters that used to happen when saving a new document from InBooklet. But Adobe has adopted the position, and I think wisely, that imposing is a last step before print and you shouldn't need a new document for editing. If you find you want an editable imposition, I suggest using one of the scripts that are available that shuffle pages. I use one all the time for making proofs because I needed it before there were other alternatives, and it's fast, accurate, and reliable. The only time the one I use (from Dave Saunders) has ever failed is when I tried to impose a sectioned document. Dave has been working on a revised version which solves even that, and I hope he'll get it released fairly soon. I know you've complained about wanting to print only specific spreads, but I think it makes just as much sense to print the whole book to PDF and choose what to print from there. Unless the document is huge, there is no real time lost in printing the extra pages to PDF, and you have the advantage of being able to change your mind an print an additional spread at any point without having to go back to InDesign to set up the print dialog again unless you've actually edited those pages. Peter ... View more

>In addition to having very limited control over the quality and image resolution from the PDF "print" dialog, when I exported a project last night all of the text boxes had a white hairline around them -- it shows very clearly on those that are over images. No white hairline when using the regular PDF output. Making a PDF through PrintBooklet will always flatten transparency since it is a print-to-distiller process, while exporting will leave the transparency live with many settings, hence the possibility of seeing "stitching" on screen in the PDF. This is a display issue only, which can be corrected by changing the view preferences in Acrobat. Edit: As far as saying you have little control over image quality, you should have exactly the same control. If images are coming out poorly in comparison either your settings are different, or you are not sending "all" data in the graphics section of the print dialog. Unfortunately you can't control other people's settings so you might get complaints, but since it is more likely you want to print an imposed document than it is to be viewed on screen, this is pretty much a non-issue. Other transparency flattening issues, however, may not be trivial, so it is imperative that you understand the proper handling of transparency and file organization any time you print to PDF. All of that aside, I frequently use Dave Saunders' Build Booklet script for simple two-up impositions. http://pdsassoc.com/downloads/Buildbooklet.zip It has let me down only once, and that was on a file that had sectioning in use. It turned out that having anything in the section prefix field (even though it was unused) tripped up the logic. Dave is developing a newer version for distribution as shareware which handles multi-section documents with aplomb, and hopefully it will be available in the near future. Peter ... View more