Exporting a book as a PDF WITH bleed?

Hi,
Can I export my Lightroom 4 Book WITH bleed? I want to send it to my printer but can't find a way to do this which means I'll have to re-do the whole project in InDesign
Help please!
Andy

With BLEED as a PDF, that is... it's ok when it goes to BLURB, but when you output as a PDF to the Printer they can't see the bleed....

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Interactive PDFs with Bleeds

I recently upgraded to InDesign CS5, and I am trying to create an interactive PDF with bleeds. Does anyone know how to do this? It seems like I have the option to either make a print PDF with bleeds or an Interactive PDF without bleeds, but I can't combine them. My e-commerce site requires that I upload a print-ready file with buttons for creating templates. I could create the buttons in Acrobat, but that's a lot of extra work, and I would be going backwards since I used to be able to do this in CS3 and CS4. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

They definitely are different, in the interactive one you can specify the view and layout settings of the PDF which is great, it should have been added ages ago, but you still can't tell it to open the bookmarks panel with it, or pages or layers, you have to do this in Acrobat still which is a pain. And in the standard PDF export you can now either not include Interactive elements or include appearance only.
It seems stupid to me to split the functionality of the PDF export into two different types. If they want to have a dumbed down interactive one; fine, but why take functionality out of the main PDF export dialog?

I can not export my book as a PDF file, Why?

I'm having problem exporting my book as a PDF or JPEG file so I can set it to a client, please help me.

In case if the files are missing for the once you have in your book module they can have issues exporting as PDF or JPEG.
Please check the same and replace the files which are missing or attach the same and then try exporting the same.
-Mandhir

Any way to export a book using a PDF preset?

Let me first explain the workflow we have right now, and that we are slowly trying to improve upon, but nonetheless...
I am designing a newspaper. We have two individuals who pagenate the pages, laying out the advertisements on them before sending me a packaged InDesign document of each page.
I, right now, am going and opening each InDesign document, then dragging it into my master document, which takes some time. I then finish laying out the newspaper with copy.
I thought recently I might instead simply open all the InDesign documents in a book and then finish laying out the newspaper from there.
My First question though is, can you actually thread text from one text box to a text box in another document within the book? If not, is there any practical solution to this?
Secondly, I tried exporting a book with one of the PDF presets we have created, but I only saw the two options, PDF print and PDF interactive. Is there no way to export a book as one of the pdf presets?
I'm working on a mac on CS6.

First, no, you cannot thread between files, so you would need to move pages from one file into the other.
Second, you can certainly export the book to PDF. There are two "flavors" of PDF, interactive or print, but either one can be used to make a PDF from the entire Book. Choose Export Book as PDF from the Book Panel flyout menu, choose your flavor as appropriate, then choose a location and finally the options.

How do I save an 11x17 spread pdf with bleeds via print booklet (paginated) so I can send to FedEx to print?

I used to be able to Print Booklet and change the print setting to Save as postscript and Distill it but when I do that now the pages get cropped so they are no longer 12x18.

On the other hand ... the next time you do this, you might want to check out one of the imposition plug-ins for InDesign. I work for Sterling Computing, the maker of IDImposer, so that would be my choice, of course!
Comparing the two alternatives:
The PostScript-Distiller approach:
"I added a new Document Preset for oversize (File >Print Presets >Define... make a new one this size:17.5833 11.5833)
Make sure your bleeds are already set (.125)
File > Print Booklet
Select the Print Preset you just made
click Print Settings...
Select the Print Preset you just made (yes, again)
Printer: PostScript File
PPD: Adobe PDF 9.0
OK
Print
Save the .ps file
Open it with Distiller or Adobe Acrobat Pro
Output to PDF"
Elapsed time: anywhere from 5 minutes to days or even weeks
Chance of errors: moderate
Ease of use: poor
Quality: flattened transparency, loss of managed color
Vintage: late 1980's
vs
The IDImposer approach:
Verify that your Bleeds are set the way you want them, in File > Document Setup... > More Options
Window > Extensions > IDImposer
In IDImposer:
Set the imposition type (Saddle Stitch, probably) and desired Sheet size (18 x 12) in the IDImposer dialog
Click the "Impose" button, and watch the screen flash for a minute or so
Optional: Inspect the results in InDesign. Maybe do a quick proof print.
Export to PDF (from InDesign): File > Export... > Adobe PDF (print)
Elapsed time: typically under 2 minutes, for a 16 page booklet
Quality: excellent

How to export Address Book content as Unicode with applescript?

Hello,
I have a problem for exporting address book content. I'd like to export "My Card" to a vcf file and use another application to read it. So I have the following applescript:
*+tell application "Finder"+*
*+set theFolder to folder "TemporaryItems" of folder "Caches" of folder "Library" of home+*
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*+set theFile to (theFolder as text) & "myCard.vcf"+*
*+set theFileHandle to open for access theFile with write permission+*
*+-- write (ASCII character of 254) to theFileHandle+*
*+-- write (ASCII character of 255) to theFileHandle+*
*+write theVcard to theFileHandle+*
*+close access theFileHandle+*
*+end tell+*
OK, now the problem is that if "My Card" has any double-byte characters like Chinese or Arabic, the output file will just hold some question marks ("??"). The code works in Tiger but not Leopard. (Add char 254 and 255 just to make it a UTF16-BE file. So it doesn't really change the result of this script.)
I started digging and guess here is the reason: in the following statement the "vcard of my card" will always return plain text:
+*set theVcard to (vcard of my card) as Unicode text*+
I got this clue from the help of ScriptEditor:
+*vcard (text, r/o) : Person information in vCard format, this always returns a card in version 3.0 format.*+
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+*vcard (Unicode text, r/o) : Person information in vCard format, this always returns a card in version 3.0 format.*+
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Calvin

Hello Calvin,
Since your code works under OSX10.4 and fails under OSX10.5, the cause would be the change made in AppleScript 2.0.
Try -
write theVcard as Unicode text to theFileHandle
instead of -
write theVcard to theFileHandle
The read/write commands in AS 2.0 have been change so that they will always interpret the text in system's primary encoding if 'as Unicode text' is not specified in commands' parameter.
cf.
http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/AppleScript/RN-AppleScript/index.html
Unicode Support
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangG uide/
pp. 151-153, 168-169 (of pdf version)
Commands Reference > read, write
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H

How do I maintain bookmarks in multiple documents when exporting a book file to PDF?

I am using a book file to organize 10 individual indesign documents. Each document has its own set of bookmarks and links, and their are links that go to other documents within the book as well. How do I (using CS3) print my book file to PDF while maintaining all the interactive components? I want my complete list of bookmarks to appear within the bookmark pane, and I want all of the interactive links in the document to work when they are clicked in the PDF. Doing this for one document is simple, set the preferences to enable the bookmarks and links. However, none of these PDF export settings seem to work when printing the entire book.
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I had it open, just wasn't looking in the right spot. Found it... thanks a bundle. This has made my day... as long as the bookmarks work when I export.
Thanks!

Exporting PDF with bleed

Hello,
I'm sending a document to a printing company in a pdf file. I am trying to export the document so it bleeds off the page. The bleed is set to 0, and when I open the document in Acrobat, it shows it bleeds off the page. The printing company says it doesn't when they open it. Is there any way I can export this as a pdf so it bleeds off the page?
Thanks!

Why do you have it set to zero?
You need to add bleed to the document or set the bleed manually when exporting.
Bob

Script to batch export multiple Books (.indb) to PDF

I have multiple InDesign Book files that I would like to batch export to PDFs, respectively. (Not looking to combine multiple books into a single PDF. Just a 1 to 1 PDF export for each Book file.)
In googling for an answer, I found Peter Kahrel's script for doing just this for other InDesign files, but it does not work for Books. http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/batch_convert.html
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How do I export a keynote slide to pdf with a transparent background?

I use Keynote for creating figures for a report I'm currently writing and layouting in Adobe InDesign.
Unfortunately I have run in to a quite annoying problem.
Because of the page-layout and background graphics in my main report, I need to be able to export the figures without the white background which comes as standard. I tried to remove the background in "Master & layout" (my Keynote is in Danish, not sure if it's called the same in English), which is suggested to bring background transparency when exporting to Quicktime movies. I doesn't seem to have any effect when exporting to pdf though.
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thanks!

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Error message when trying to export a book as PDF or trying to send it to Blurb

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I'm desperatly trying to export my book as a pdf file in LR4 but I'm getting error message after rendering the 5th page (out of 85) Do you guys know why it's happening? Same error message when I try to send my book directly to Blurb (no surprise here since LR4 need to create a PDF file first....)
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To go around this problem, is there a way to export my book as it is (layout+ pictures (227)) to Blurb Booksmart software using the Blurb plug-in installed in LR4?
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Thanks a lot in advance
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Yes page 5 is a double page spread and this is not the only one in my book! I will modify the page 5 to see if the error message will appear at the next double page spread....
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Richard

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Is there any sample or references for this?
Thanks,
Shailesh

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