Exporting Printer's Spread (PDF)

I'm trying to figure out a way to export a file (designed as reader's spread) as printer's spread on a PDF on Indesign CS3. I'm trying to use the Inbooklet feature, but so far I can only make it print spreads, not save them as PDFs.
Any suggestions?

I'm making a personal project (only 20 copies of a 12 page book) so I'm printing it at Kinko's myself. This is a personal project, and I'm not going to pay the big bucks to print on an offset printer. I don't have a printer installed on my computer, so I can't even make an imposed printer's spread because Adobe PDF does't even show up, only postscript. Why? Why would InDesign remove Adobe PDF as an option? Clearly not every project a designer creates with InDesign is meant for the massive quantities required for offset printing. It's extremely frustrating to find out that such an expensive piece of software can't do something that cheap and even free programs can do. I don't want to have to learn another piece of software to make small jobs like this!

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It is a problem with a secondary provider, "mag cloud" .
Right, so to advise you we'd need to know the particulars of MagCloud's spec for your project; format, trim size, bleed, etc.
It's doubtful that anything happened "when uploading for printing," so long as you were uploading a PDF, as opposed to the native InDesign file. Did the PDF look right to you before uploading?

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i am trying to describe a problem which persists since version CS3 of InDesign. It's about aliased edges in images in a certain angle; occuring when exporting the brochure as PDF file (at 300 ppi). The placed images are always at a higher quality than needed (for example 780 ppi effective). The aliasing is not there when opening the original image files in photoshop (viewing at 100%).
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Something about your test looks off. The export from ID and export from PS PDFs are both zoomed at 1200%, but the export from ID vrsion is 90% smaller.
Yeah I noticed that I actually had the image in InDesign scaled @ 90%, so the effective ppi was around 650. I get the same jagged results when I use anything other than a 300 or 600 effective ppi. Whereas if I use a 650ppi image in Photoshop and export to PDF, it downsamples smoothly.
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I've attached 2 example files to help me explain my problem.
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"example-spreads.pdf" is what my InDesign file looks like.
"example-NOspreads.pdf" is what I want to do for the printer, but you can see the problem with the bleeds in this file.
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OK.
My personal favorite way to deal with this situation is to make the pages wider by the amount of the required inside bleed and add that same amount to the inside margin (turn on layout adjustment before you do this, and just for good measure try it on a copy). Add a pair of ruler guides and some manual crop marks on the master page to mark the inside trim, and set the inside bleed to 0. This won't work well if objects actually cross the spine, however, but that doesn't seem all that likely for a wire-o binding.
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I haven't tried printing to PDF. I will try that and see what happens. Unfortunetly, where I work we are required to export to PDF rather than print to PDF, so if it works it will only be a clue for me rather than a solution.
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