ID CS3 Print Booklet really needs help.

Question

Have read all the posts regarding Booklet, and this feature really needs an overhaul. The PM 7.0 Booklet was far better. Surely there are thousands of printers who need to make up booklets, then as job develops, go in and make a change and rerun a single plate. This you could do in PM 7.0, and I assumed that CS3 would be an improvement over that even.

Answer 1

I don't think whoever responsible for coding Print Booklet had a clue of what they were doing or why.
PageMaker had a feature called Build Booklet. Previous versions of ID had a Build Booklet plug-in. This is PRINT Booklet, and the feature takes that idea mind numbingly literally. The only good thing to say about it is that it does exactly what it says if you follow its logic. But considering the following, I'm wondering if that wasn't just blind luck.
From the Adobe Help:
>If you dont want the entire document to be imposed, select Range in the Setup area and specify which pages to include in the imposition.
Use hyphens to separate consecutive page numbers, and commas for nonadjacent page numbers. For example, typing 3-7, 16 imposes pages 3 through 7 and 16.
Printing from a 20 page document, that would return the following spreads:
blank - 3
4 - blank
16 - 5
6 - 7
You ask for six pages, and get four spreads of two. There is a perfect logic at work here. But it just makes no sense.
I am left wondering what Adobe was thinking. Who would ever WANT to print a selection of pages as printers spreads that are completely irrelevant to the original document? They should be embarassed.