CS5 print booklet 4-up

Is there a way of useing print booklet for printing 4 pages on a spread?
I have an A5 booklet that I want to print on A3 and then Cut the A3 to 4.
What is the best way of doing this?
Thanks

Lets figure out the pattern that you are trying to achieve on your n-up sheet, becasue that will determine the preliminary steps. If you want just n copies of the same page you don't need Print Booklet at all, but if you want multiple copies of an imposed spread you do.
If you need Print Booklet, you need to print to Postscript file and distill (Mac Snow Leopard or later, and see InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Acrobat’s Adobe PDF Printer Replaced in Snow Leopard) or print to the Adobe PDF Printer with Windows. If you don't need imposed spreads, you can work with the original .indd file.
Download Scott Zanelli's Multipage Placer script from InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Zanelli Releases MultiPageImporter for Importing both PDF and INDD Files. If you don't know how to install a script, you can check How to install scripts in InDesign | InDesignSecrets among other places.
When you run the script it's fairly self-explanatory, but it will ask you for a file name, and for how you want to position and scale the pages in your new document. Run it as many times as you need to fill your page, or use step and repeat on each page to add additional copies (running the script will be faster, most of the time).

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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.
Any help?

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

CS5 Print Booklet is not generating a booklet. How can I work around this?

I have updated to CS5 and now when I use "print Booklet" for my 12 page inDesign document, no pdf is produced. In CS3, the pdf appeared with no problem, ready to take to the printer, all spreads ready for saddle stitch printing on ledger paper. I can produce a pdf of the spreads as one reads it, or a pdf of each 8 1/2 x 11 page saparately, just not the booklet. I have read of people using a script to make a booklet in CS5. It seems that Adobe should fix this problem, and in the meanwhile make it clear where to get the script and how to use it.
I'm using Snow Leopard on a Mac, Snow Leopard and CS5 both new to me at the same time. I think CS3 was better, perhaps, but I no longer have it.
All help will be appreciated.
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CS5 print booklet

I have documents that were created in CS3 and printed perfectly that now won't print as a booklet in CS5. My most recent document appears correctly on screen but pulls various pages together to print rather than organising itself to print as it appears on screen. The document is 36 pages long.
When printing booklet it prints page 1 with 36, 2 with 35, 3 with 34 etc rather than shuffling and placing the pages together as they appear on the speads on the screen 2 with 3, 3 with 4 etc.
Does anyone know what is causing this and how to rectify it?

That's exactly the way Print Booklet is intended to function -- it creates an imposed print ready for binding -- unless you choose the "consecutive" imposition. If you want to view readers' spreads for proofing, you don't need to use Print Booklet, just check the "Spreads" box in the print dialog.

ID CS5 Print Booklet - page orientation isn't printing correctly

I've been printing the same eight page booklet in CS4 with the print booklet feature just fine for a while now. I opened the file in CS5 and could not get the file to orient correctly. The first spread is always correct, then subsequent pages are cut off because they're printed landscape on a portrait sheet. Page setup is set to 12x18 and the preview looks correct in the dialogue, but when it processes through my rip the pages are altered.
Note, I saved the file down as .idml and reopened in CS4 and it printed perfectly, just as I remembered.
Is anyone else having this problem?

I have the same problem printing to a Canon ImageRUNNER C1 via a Q1 RIP server from a Mac using OS 10.6.
The main issue is printing in Landscape. When the print is duplexed, single-sided, or booklet - if the print has multiple pages printed in Landscape orientation it rotates the second page (and every page after) 90 degree from the first page.
This makes booklet-style printing impossible without printing to PDF and duplex printing out of Acrobat.
The curious thing is: 1- The first page is ALWAYS fine. Every page after that rates and 2- Portrait pages print fine, even duplexed. If I print a four page booklet with two pages duplexed on each side of a Portrait-oriented page I have no problem.
If this is a driver error it is specific to InDesign CS5 as the files print fine out of Acrobat, InDesign CS4, and even InDesign CS3 - if I save it back that far.
Canon claims it's not their issue and doesn't think it's worth any type of driver update.
Also, when the same file is printed to a lesser quality color printer I can duplex in landscape without problems.

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

Why does "Print Booklet" from Indesign CS5.5 only create low res pdf? How do I get High Res for Offs

Long time ID user in Agency. Created a simple 4 page brochure in CS5.5 ID. Facing pages for cust size 11x17 half fold document.
Generating the pdf for Press and HQ Print renders a nice high res document, but the print booklet feature only produces a skinny low res version. Tried to mess with the printer settings, but the result is the same with a skinny low res document.
I didn't want to recreate the brochure as a two page manually imposed as I like the option of being able to add more pages in increments of four of course. Plus it's just silly to do that when ID is supposed to handle it for me.
I worked around it this time by printing to .ps output then distilling, and then splitting the document so printer could have a "front" and "back" 11x17. But this seems kludged big time. This has to be a bug unless I am missing something.

You probably never changed the default settings in the PDF printer properties. In the print booklet dialog, click the Print Settings button, then the Setup button at the bottom of the Print Dialog that pops up, choose the PDF printer and click on Preferences. Reset the default reset the default settings to the ones you really want to use, or reset them in Windows... Control Panel > Devices and Printers... Double-click the PDF printer, then from the print queue dialog, Printer > Properties... General tab and clcik the Preferences button.

InDesign CS5.5 Print Booklet Only Printing Even Pages

I'm having an issue with print booklet in Indesign CS5.5. I haven't used it before, so I'm not too familiar with it, but here's my problem:
I'm printing out the document (comprised of letter-size facing pages) as a PostScript file, then converting to PDF with Distiller. When I preview the document in the print booklet dialogue box, it looks good, and shows all the pages facing one another in the correct order. But when I print the PostScript file and use Distiller to convert it to a PDF, all I get in my final file are the even pages (the "left" pages).
I'm trying to print my file on tabloid paper so that my booklet ends up letter size. But the pages that print booklet is sending out are only letter sized. It's like somehow in the process, the odd pages are cut off and I only end up with letter-sized even pages.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? How can I get the pages to end up on Tabloid size paper and not lose any pages?
Any help you might be able to offer would be highly appreciated!
Thanks,
Landon
System Info:
Mac OSX 10.7, Lion
Adobe InDesign CS5.5

Sounds like the file is not set to tabloid in the postscript so it's cropping off the right hand side. Printing to postscript for distiller is pretty complex on Mac these days. You need to use the AdobePDF ppd, not device independent, and I don't believe it's installed anywhere by default. Take a look at Creating PostScript Files in Snow Leopard for Older Print Workflows | InDesignSecrets

ID CS5 is pixelating my images when I print booklet. How do I fix it?

When I hit print booklet all my images are pixelated when converted to a PDF in Acrobat Distiller. The resolution of the images are at least 300 dpi and when I simply just export the file the images are very clear. However when I print booklet they are all pixelated. Any suggestions?

Check the distiller settings. It sounds like it's set to downsample severely

In Design cs5 print to booklet how the heck do I pdf

Ok I've tried -- print to booklet and then press print pdf. It won't do it ...says doesn't support this action.
Then I printed booklet to postscript, opened in distiller and made a pdf out of it.
Is there a way - as in cs4 on pc to just print booklet to pdf?
Can you fix that and send the update?

On Snow Leopard you're pretty much stuck.
InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Acrobat’s Adobe PDF Printer Replaced in Snow Leopard

How do I "Print Booklet" with just odd pages and even pages for duplexing . . options disabled

I have InDesign CS5.5 on a Windows 7 64-bit machine hooked to a Xerox 7750 printer. I have created a 8.5x11 portrait document and trying to create a booklet on 12x18 sheets.
I need to print duplex manually and so I need to print just the odd spreads and then the even spreads.
I have printed to Adobe PDF and printed from my created PDF file and have it working, but I want to know why InDesign won't let me do it. When I click "File > Print Booklet > Print Settings" then it shows the Print Dialog box with the Pages section, which includes the Sequence that normally would allow me to do Odd Pages or Even Pages, but it is disabled. Why? I can define Print Presets and I can choose Odd Pages, but when I choose that in the Preset box it does not show anything, everything is still disabled.
Anybody have any idea of why it is disabled? Is it my printer driver?

I too was very frustrated after upgrading to indesign cs5.5 and the latest LION OS on my new MAC. I missed the odd/even page selection in the print dialog box within Indesign. I tried about everything and found little of value in various forums. But I did find a workable solution that makes since in terms of Apple's OS.
My objective is to "impose" my document and also end up with a file that I can just print again and again without "ripping" in the InDesign Print Booklet Dialog.
Here is the quick version of what to do. I am not including every little step with pictures. =) (I can if there is interest.)
1. create your document
2. Print Booklet
3. At the first dialog box, just ignore the printer in print preset (you will come back to this) and go to the 2-up perfect bound option and select 16 page signatures. This will impose 2-up on 4 physical pieces of paper printed both sides. So 16 of your document pages printed duplex on 4 physical sheets of paper. It would be nice to then just select the printer and scaling, etc. and the option to print even pages, flip over and then print odd pages but that ain't an option. If you have different needs, do the math and input the correct numbers before proceeding
4. Click on Print Settings to pull up a second dialog box.
5. Select for Printer PostScript File (not your printer) Also select for PPD your printer or Adobe PDF 9 if you have that installed. Don't obsess on this just pick your Printer for the PPD.
6. Select 1 copy and All Pages while in the General Tab
7. Select the Setup Tab Here is where you put in the actual physical paper size that you are going to print your document on. Don't scale to fit. You must do this. If you feel the need, check out all the tabs and options but for now, you are just trying to get an output file. You probably do want to select CENTER for page position in this same setup tab.
8. Hit OK whcih will return you to the original dialog. Check when you return to be sure that at the top Printer is populated with PostScript File. Click on Print and give the thing a name and a location to save at the resulting dialog.
Breathe as you are almost home. You have sucessfully created a file that can be called up again and again without opening InDesign. (albeit, a postscript file but not a problem)
Now,
1. Double click on this new file (it will have a .ps extention) or just open it in your PREVIEW (apple supplied utility) Preview is where you accomplish the even and odd page objective.
2. Preview will show you a short progress dialog while it rips this postscript file into a PDF.
3. Click on PRINT
4. Select your printer,page range, select the Paper Size (again not document size but the size sheet that you are printing the 2-up , imposed (booklet) document on. If not in the selection dialog, then use the custom option to create it (custom paper size) and give it a name.
5. Click on SCALE and insert 100% in place of the weird number that it will insert for you. You will then see your document correctly displayed in the sidebar preview window.
6. OK, now what you have been waiting for. Click on the box that says Preview (the active window) and select Paper Handling from the drop-down and select from Pages to Print the coveted odd or even page selection. You can also do other things that should have been back at the InDesign print dialog but are now gone. Explore. Enjoy.
7. You will have to work out your own work flow about reverse or no reverse order and how to flip, etc. But you will be working with something predictable at this point.
8. Since this has been ripped into a PDF , you might as well Click on the PDF button and click on save as a PDF at this point to save that postscript to PDF rip. Also print using PREVIEW for the newly created PDF file next time as you will not have to learn a bunch of new dialogs and be frustrated all over again.
I am now back in business printing the book blocks for my handbound journals.

Can't print booklet to PDF?

I am using InDesign CS5 (7.0.3) on Mac OSX 10.6.8.
I've created a short 12-page document, 5.5"x8.5", and I want to print it 2-up so it will fit on letter-size paper that I can fold and staple. Simple, right?
I can't figure out how to print it as a PDF.
I go to "print booklet" and the options are either to print to my printer, or to print to "PostScript File," which I select and I end up with a .ps file.
Then I open Acrobat Distiller and drag the file to the window, where it is turned into a PDF file.
BUT...the resulting PDF file has all the text printed portrait instead of landscape, and most of it is cut off. Not what I wanted.
I've been through every dialogue box I can find, and I don't see any settings to change the orientation of the page for the .ps or .pdf file. The print preview looks perfect.
How do I fix this? Thank you!

Some articles I've read give me instructions on where to put my PPD file, but not on how to obtain a PPD file (I've searched my computer and the web with no luck). Either I'm clueless (definitely a possibility) or the instructions are lacking.
The article to which you linked told you pretty clearly where you could find that PPD, assuming that you have installed Acrobat 9 at some point in the past.
If you do not have Acrobat 9 installed, then why don't you search Google for "ADPDF9.PPD"? It's the second link. And, because you ask us to spell it out: you'll want to right-click on the link and choose Save Link As, and make sure you save it with that name - ADPDF9.PPD.
However, given the length of the document (it's really short), then I have another suggestion for you - do it manually. No, seriously! I'm assuming that your source document is already at the "letter-half" page size. What you can do is:
1) Fold up some paper so that you have a 12-page booklet. Write page numbers so you know which panel goes where, when you...
2) Unfold that paper. See, now you can see exactly what is going on under the hood!
3) Make a new, empty portrait-orientation letter-size InDesign document.
4) Using your handy key that you made in steps 1 and 2, place your letter-half content-having InDesign file into your empty InDesign file. (Yes, you can place ID file 1 into ID file 2 and it will behave like an image.)
This feels like a lot of work, but it's work that will not simply vanish the next time that somebody at Adobe or Apple decides to change the way that PDFs or printers work. Also, you'll get a better understanding of what goes on during imposition, and you'll have easily editable files. Make changes to the source file, update the links in your target booklet INDD, and you're ready to go!

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.

CS6 on Mac OS 10.8 printing booklet

Hi all,
I've just switched from WinXP/CS5.5 to Mac10.8/CS6 Design & web Premium and I have a problem with booklets.
I'm newbie on Mac so please excuse me if it's lame question.
When I'm doing a booklet (File -> Print Booklet), defining all my needs (Pages all, Booklet type, signature size etc.) CS is doing a Postcript file with a page size of original document with only right half of my booklet spread (not twice larger for a whole spread).
Printer is PostScript File - I cannot change to Adobe PDF nor change page size (in Booklet -> Printer settings -> Setup).
Moreover I have a dialog that there is no printers installed on my MacBook.
Mac system settings on Printes are empty.
I've tried to search on forum/google etc but found nothing on 10.8 printing problem. Only solutions I've found are on other versions of OS with different dialogs, check-boxes...
Any hints?
Pawel

I think problem is partly solved - based on http://forums.adobe.com/message/4767410. Now I can change page format with Postscript printer and Acrobat 9 PPD and print a booklet, then convert to pdf.
It's not good when you have a brand new hardware and software and you have to look for this kind of tricks to do quite simple and basic task.

Print booklet to pdf?

I'm trying to export a .pdf file where the pages are in print order, not viewing order (i.e., where they're already imposed).
The Print Booklet feature of InDesign (File > Print Booklet) works fine for reordering the pages and then printing them, but I'm trying to reorder the pages and save them as a .pdf file.
Another discussion I saw on this topic recommended using Print Booklet and selecting "print to pdf" from one's list of printers, but for me, this option doesn't show up.
I'm sure this is very easy to do, as InDesign has 1) the ability to export to .pdf, and 2) the ability to reorder pages for printing, but somehow I'm just not seeing how to do this.
What I have:
- InDesign CS5
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Thanks for any help.

The AdobePDF virtual printer is installed as part of the installation process of a FULL version of Acrobat. If you don't have Acrobat, that's why you don't see it. You could print to file and then use one of the freeware PDF converters, perhaps, but I don't know what the result would be. Since you'd be working with a flattened file it will probably work OK.

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