Booklet Issues

Has anybody encountered a discrepency in margins when printing a booklet from Adobe Acrobat 9? Our postscript printer, for some odd reason, added a wider margin on one side making the marigin narrow on the other. The Indesign CS4 document has even margins on left and right. I PDF the file and it was perfect, but when using acrobat booklet to impose the pages to spreads, the hardcopy printed the margins wrong. We looked at every setting in acrobat and our postscript printer, but does not show anything enabled in regards to shifting or scaling the pages. The document is 5.5x8.5 printing facing pages on 8.5x11. This size shouldn't be the problem. What is causing the problem?

Without the ability to install the Acrobat 9 PPD file that you need to do this right from Print Booklet, you're better off either placing the pages into a new 11 x 17 file in the correct order (prone to error, but not impossible -- make a dummy from folded paper and write the page numbers on it, then pull it apart to see what goes where) or use something like Dave Saunders' imposition script that you'll find at http://pdsassoc.com/downloads/Buildbooklet.zip to make an imposed copy that you can EXPORT to PDF wit the spreads box checked. This is an old script and might need to be in a "Version 4.0" (without the quotes) sufolder in the scripts panel folder to run properly, but I don't think so. If you have objects that cross the spine, use Dave's CS3 Booklet Script instead, and export with the spreads box UNchecked.

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I'm having several booklet making issues I'm hoping someone can help me with.
I am on a MacPro, OS X Leopard, InDesign CS3. We have a Xerox WorkCentre 7655 that has booklet making capability. The network server is a PC with Microsoft 2003 server on it.
The booklet I am making uses two 11x17 trays - one for cover stock for the cover and one for regular 24 lb paper for the insides. The layout is single pages rather than spreads - spreads did not work at all.
From InDesign using the printer, the cover pages come out backwards and mirror image. The inside pages are upside down and on only half the page. I did not not InDesign file/booklet because that seemed to create even more problems with the Xerox booklet settings, and I don't know how to try InDesign booklet and not the Xerox settings.
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I actually did get the booklets to print properly using the pdf file and a PC, but any gray graphics came out lilac. The text was black, and the covers were the correct colors - only the inside graphics were the wrong color.
I hope this makes some sense - I really need help. I've tried everything I can think of. I spent a lot of time with Xerox 1st and 2nd level support, and they have washed their hands of this. So I'm posting here hoping someone has some ideas.
Any other information anyone might need for this issue? Thanks so much.

I have a similar machine configuration and have had many issues printing to an HP 9500mfp. Pages rotate, mirror, 2-sided both print on same side. I've lost the "bookletmake" function. Jobs will not recognize paper trays (meaning I have to manually tell it which paper tray holds the tabloid stock). I've tried using the "Page Setup" dialog box to no avail. On occasion, I can get some of the features to work with a pdf printing from Acrobat. Sometimes, that doesn't work either - never with any kind of predictability. Printing to the HP 4700 is more reliable. I've downloaded the updated "Leopard" compatible driver from HP, but it fixed no issues. When I tried contacting tech support for HP, the replied that this is an OS issues and not with equipment, leaving me SOL.

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I've been trying to use the 'Print Booklet' feature to save it as a .ps file and then open it in Acrobat. It is set at 2-up Saddle Stitch; print settings are set to Device Independent. Everytime I open it in Acrobat and it goes through Distiller, I wind up with an 8-page PDF comprised of the first page of each booklet spread. The first page of the resulting 8-page PDF gets named "Spread 1 of 8 - Pages (16, 1)" and so forth, so it seems to be thinking that it has both pages of each spread, but it only shows one per.
SO - does it in fact have both pages of each spread or not?
I don't have admin privleges on this Mac so I can't add any plug-ins, etc.
I only have a typical 8.5x11" printer on this Mac, so trying to save the .ps file using that printer for print settings instead of Device Independent didn't work.
I tried printing the PDF in landscape; the missing pages weren't miraculously revealed.
How can I fix this?

Without the ability to install the Acrobat 9 PPD file that you need to do this right from Print Booklet, you're better off either placing the pages into a new 11 x 17 file in the correct order (prone to error, but not impossible -- make a dummy from folded paper and write the page numbers on it, then pull it apart to see what goes where) or use something like Dave Saunders' imposition script that you'll find at http://pdsassoc.com/downloads/Buildbooklet.zip to make an imposed copy that you can EXPORT to PDF wit the spreads box checked. This is an old script and might need to be in a "Version 4.0" (without the quotes) sufolder in the scripts panel folder to run properly, but I don't think so. If you have objects that cross the spine, use Dave's CS3 Booklet Script instead, and export with the spreads box UNchecked.

Interactive Booklet Issues

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rmb6687,
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Print Booklet issues: indd adds very unnecessary pages to my document when I try to "print booklet"?

I have no idea why this is happening, but it is driving me batty and makes zero sense and I need
I had a 30+ page document that was correctly booklet printing and added chapter start pages through the doc. I did not renumber or start sections on these when adding them, they are in the same section as most of the pages... Basically the document goes like this:
Front Cover -- Page A (recto)
Blank -- Page B (verso)
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etc... etc...
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Suddenly, for some unknown reason that I have not been able to figure out, indesign has now decided that the front cover/back cover printer spread isn't that any longer. It prints a blank page on the printer spread for the front cover (keeping the cover page recto) and the back cover prints in a printer spread beside page 1. It being a function of the sectioning seems the likely culprit, but that sectioning hasn't changed from when I was printing it without the new added pages. I can't start the book pagination until the TOC (page 1), so it has to remain, as well...
Anybody have any ideas? Is there any way to force indd to not add these unnecessary pages? I have unchecked print blank pages and print blank spreads in all the print dialogues and also tried the opposite.

bfvalenza wrote:
I have unchecked print blank pages and print blank spreads in all the print dialogues and also tried the opposite.
You need to include blank pages. I've never ever used Print Booklet (my experience is firmly rooted in traditional offset printing so I find ID's booklet option ... "a nice cutesy try") but I imagine Print Blank Spreads may also be necessary. However, it should be very unusual to have entire spreads blank.
From your story it's not really clear how many pages (including cover etc.) you have. If it's not a multiple of 4, InDesign will ALWAYS pad it with blank pages. That is the only way to print as booklet.

INDD CS5 print booklet impose problem

Using iMac with Lion and INDD CS5.
Im doing a 28 page booklet on legal paper (8.5x14), so each final page is 8.5 tall by 7 wide. I used the Print Booklet feature to make an imposed PDF and the preview looked fine, but the resulting ps file opens and its "imposed" but it only is getting the left page and part of the right page, almost as if the page size its "printing" to is not legal. But I can't find where I make sure its destination is legal paper. Anywhere in the print or settings where its specifies paper, its grayed out or unavailable.
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This is a 100% Adobe issue, I've been following a tutorial off the Adobe site, printing to a PS file, and it still screws up.
BUT......
Use FIX 2 off this link, worked great for me.
http://yourartdirector.blogspot.com/2010/11/indesign-print-booklet-issue-solved.html

Peggy, Walt, addition to previous post...

Apologies Peggy, Walt ... I'm not sure if you are automatically informed of an additional reply in a thread. Which I added to: 'First 4 pages without page numbers, all the rest with?'
I occasionally and inadvertently let a thread languish because I don't know something has been added.
You help was invaluable ... and ... I'm still struggling to understand the booklet issue (which I realise should be a new post anyhow...)
Ben

I don't subscribe to any posts in this forum because I look at all posts that indicate there is new content. I, too, have added some more info in the other thread.
I don't think a new thread about the booklet is a good idea. Better to keep it all together. I think I was the one to suggest CocoaBooklet in the first place.

I am trying to print a booklet. I have printed it several times without issue. Now when I print, it gives me one blank page or else 2 out of my 8 pages?

I am trying to print a booklet. I have printed it several times with no issues. Now when I try to print it (with no changes in the program) it will either give me a blank page or will print one of my pages (there are 8 pages total). Any help?

No I didn't even read through your post, to long.
You said that "No matter what program I try to install, as soon as the installer opens it crashes". Were you talking about the install for this/these 3D programs or ANY program? As it is worded it sounded like ANY program. That tells me there is a problem with your Mac, software or hardware.
Now you say others install programs, which is it. Programs other then the 3D ones install or no programs install?
Could simply be your Mac is to old to run these programs and the installer knows that. You never said what model or year Mac it is.

Print Booklet Bleed Issue in CS6

When I try to print the file as a booklet, the left and right bleeding of some pages does not appear on themselves; however, they appear on the next spread.
The spread goes like this, with some objects exceeding the pages for bleeding:
When I print as a booklet, the preview goes like this:
Front and Back Covers; their left and right bleed do not show...
...but instead, they reach the next spread. These blue stripes in the left and right are the continuation of the covers above.
And it keeps happening with other pages that need bleeding. The top and bottom bleed are fine.
I tried changing many options in the print booklet dialogue box, even in the printer setup itself.
It may be that I have built the spreads wrong too I am still thinking if these 2 and 21 pages are necessary to exist in the file, since they are only blank. (though I had tried deleting them too, and the issue still exist)
I looked everywhere for a solution, maybe I don't know the right terms to search for this problem...
I also noticed that everything goes well while using the Export (to PDF) command.
The reason I'm using the booklet option is to have a document with the pages in an order ready for print and staples,
while maintaining the 1 to 22 sequence to use in the web.
It would be terrible creating another document and change the page numbers manually.
Hope somebody knows how to make it.

Hi Mikey!
My bad, sorry: actually there're 24 pages counting the covers and the 2 blank pages. (1-22 is the numbering for the inside content).
Even changing the page numbers won't correct the bleed.
Deciding to do something new, I isolated the pages, which first were Facing Pages.
After making a end with the spreads, the Booklet option seemed to function normally with the document bleed.
The problem is that I still would have to change the margins of the pages manually,
since they are not spreads anymore and now there's no inside/outside margins, but left/right instead.
If I could understand why I can't print the spreads as booklet would be so much better...

Print Booklet with White Lines Issue

I have searched low and high on this forum and the internet for a solution, with no luck so far. I'm hoping that you InDesign gurus can help!
Whenever I use the 'Print Booklet' feature to generate a booklet from my InDesign CS5 brochure, the output has thin white lines in various areas that should NOT be there. The lines mostly show up in areas where I am using transparent PNG files, but there are no effects on the layers for these images.
This is an odd problem because:
In the original source while viewing it there are no lines
I can print to high resolution PDF using the standard print features and everything is 100% perfect, no lines
I can export each page as a high resolution JPG and everything is 100% perfect, no lines
The lines ONLY appear when I use the "Print Booklet" function. I have tried many things that have not worked:
Changing virtually every setting in Print Booklet to something else, lines are still there
Printing to a PDF directly from 'print booklet' with many different settings, lines still there
Printing to a PS file from 'print booklet', lines still there
Printing to an XPS file from 'print booklet', lines still there
I've put up an example showing you two different outputs. The one on the left is a regular JPG export, the one on the right is the Print Booklet export. Click on the images to see a larger example:
http://www.seenbest-web-design.com/techclub/?p=1282
I've seen other people post about this problem elsewhere going as far back as CS3, but have never found a cause or a way to fix this. Some people have said 'it's just a rendering issue in Adobe Reader, and the lines will not actually appear when you have it printed'. However, when I go to print from my PDF file to my printer the lines are there in the output. They are also there when I print to a XPS document and view the image on the screen.
Any ideas?

It's a transparency flattening artifact called Stitiching and basically, becasue youare printing to PDF you're up the creek. It only happens when transparency is flattened, but printing to PDF is a distiller function, and distiller doesn't support live transparency.
The best way around this, I think, would probably be to use an imposition script to impose a copy of the file, then export spreads from that using Acrobat 5 or higher compatibility, or, if you need to do this a lot, look into a PDF imposing plugin -- Quite Imposing gets good reviews here.
If you want to go withteh script, may favorite is Dave Saunders BuildBooklet javascript (http://pdsassoc.com/downloads/Buildbooklet.zip) but it has some limitations, no creep, 2-up saddle stitich only, and no objects crossing a spine. Slightly more sophisticated is his MakeBooklet script (Dave's CS3 Booklet Script) but it is still a lot less versatile than an impostion plugin.

InDesign not exporting booklet to PDF properly - bleed issues.

I have created a 32-page booklet that I am trying to send to the printer. It has bleed on each page that I am including in the PDF export. No matter what I do, the bleed is showing up on the wrong page. So, if I am looking at page 18, it will show the proper content for that page, but the bleed will be from page 19. Page 19 will have page 18's bleed. See below. I need to order this booklet asap and really don't know what the issue is. Does anyone have an idea what this could be?

This is completely normal - it's outside the trim area of the page - and it's into the spine, even if a sliver of material was left over, it would be hidden into the spine anyway.
If you don't want it to appear you can choose PDF settings
Marks and Bleeds> and change the Inside Bleed to 0

Booklet printing issue with PC Adobe X Reader

I see that my issue was posted on April 18 by MA14urj. However, since it was never answered, I am going to post it again.
With Adobe Reader 9 - all versions - booklet printing worked great. With PC Adobe Reader X, if you try to print more than one copy, they all combine into one stapled copy. (As I type this, I am going back and forth, and printing 21 copies of a 38 page booket ONE AT A TIME).
As MA14urj wrote, "With Adobe Reader 9.4 it was working fine, since Update on 10.0 / 10.0.1 we have the error on 2 or more copys of a document they are stapled togehter, so they are useless!"
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Adobe offers paid support for Reader. It used to be $39 per issue.
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CS5 Print Booklet not working correctly - double sided issues

Hi,
So I'm very familiar with Print Booklet and have done many books in the past double-sided, but somehow in the last few months, my InDesign is having trouble with page sequence when printing booklets. Instead of printing the odd spreads how it should ... I'm getting every other spread (within the 'odd only' or 'even only'). So for instance, in this one signature... I was supposed to get a print of the spread with pages 11 and 14, followed by the center of the signature which contained pages 12 and 13 on the left and right, respectively. What happened was 12/13 never printed but the spread before it did print, and the spread before THAT one didn't print. In the "preview" part on Print Booklet, it looks normal. It's just when it actually goes to print, it has a problem.
I've tried printing with my printer and on multiple others — happens everytime.
I'm trying to print a 24 page saddle-stitch booklet, double sided. I normally would print the odds first, flip the prints, and then print the evens. I have "print blank pages" and "print blank printer spreads" checked and everything seems to be normal... except it just keeps printing every other "odd" spread instead of all the odd spreads.
I'm going to be printing a 200+pg book soon with a lot of signatures and really don't want to have to manually organize them all... so any help would be gladly appreciated.
my settings
I don't know if any of this even makes any sense... let me know. I'll do my best to explain it better. THANK YOU!

Your screen captures look correct, so the next step would be to go into the print driver (Click the Printer button, I believe) and check there to see if you've got it set to skip pages. After that, try trashing your prefs: Replace Your Preferences

Booklet Gutter Issue - When I print a booklet at 11x17, it causes a large white line down the center. But, when I try the same thing at 8.5x11 it prints side by side as it should. Help?

I have a 36 page booklet (each page is 8x5.5in). I have exported the booklet from InDesign as Pages. In Acrobat, when I select Print Booklet and 11x17 paper, it created a large white gutter down the center and the pages do not back up to each other.
I tried the same thing with 8.5x11 paper and they pages backed up to each other correctly with no white space down the center.
I tried again at 11x17 (size needed to print my booklet full size), and it's still causing the large white gutter. It's nearly half an inch or larger.
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[Imposing a multi-page document|http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=41&start=0 &postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=booklet&mforum=iworktipsntrick]
[Extending iWork's functions|http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=20&start= 0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=booklet&mforum=iworktipsntrick]
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