Print Booklet and tabloid

Hello!
I have a document all set up but print booklet automatically matches the pages, as in page 1 with the last page and so on.. for easier printing. However, im working with letter size pages.. so for the print booklet to do that for me.. i have to set up the page size as tabloid.. however.. when i go to the setup options, in the dropdown list there isn't a tabloid option and for some reason it wont let me manually set up the page size....
I am using InDesign CS4... does any1 know how to solve this??

Does the selected printer actually support tabloid?
Also, not all printers call tabloid tabloid. Look for 11 x 17 or Ledger in the list, too.

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This seems to be a bug, and so far the only workaround I know is to copy/paste everything into a new file.

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 - Spreads Missing from PDF

I am exporting a 123 page book to a PDF containing 16 page signatures to be perfect bound. I go to File > Print Booklet and set my signature size to 16 and select "2-up Perfect Bound." The print preview is acurate to what I want my final PDF to look like. I choose "Print" and when the printing progress bar is about 1/8 to 1/4 finished - Acrobat launches and my "finished" PDF only has three spreads - while InDesign continues to print the pdf. If I uncheck "View Adobe PDF Results" under "Printing Preferences" and wait for the PDF to be completed before manually launching Acrobat, I have identical results. I have also tried printing 16 pages at a time to have one document per 16 page signature. Same results.
Any ideas?
an acrobat setting or an InDesign setting?
Hmmm....

Thank you for the suggestions, adding pages for even multiples of 16 didn't work unfortunately, I actually did try that prior to posting.
I erased my preferences, which seemed to make a difference initially, but ultimately failed also - print progress bar got to about 3/4 before the problem occurred where it had previously only gone to about 1/8 or 1/4.
For today, my solution was CS3. Luckily I still had it installed and was able to print the booklet to pdf using it, but still can't get it to work via CS4.

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I have been having issues with the print booklet feature of inDesign CS6. I am doing a half letter layout. the pages are laid out as the end user would see them. when I click on print booklet and set all of the print settings, everything is fine. the preview show the spreads correctly. example (the back cover and front cover are on one spread with the back being on the left). problem is, once I print, the back cover is replaced by a blank page and the back is then placed on spread 3. page 1 is then placed where the blank inside cover should be. I mad a 12 page blank document and placed only page numbers on the pages and then printed booklet. the preview was correct and the printed output was also correct. as soon as I add any other elements to the pages, it no longer prints correctly.
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Wow, never would have thought you would have that option twice. That seemed to do the trick! Thank you so much. I owe you one!
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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
- Photoshop CS4
- Windows 7
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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I am trying to export a booklet to a PDF so I can send it to another machine to print. I am going to File> Print Booklet and I am printing to a PostScript file. I am then opening it up in Preview and the orientation of the file is messed up. Below are some screenshots.
So in File>Print Booklet> Preview it shows that I am perfectly inside the guidelines. Notice it is in landscape mode.
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From what I can tell it looks like InDesign is exporting the file in portrait instead of landscape but I can't change it in the InDesign Print Booklet settings because it is greyed out.
Any recommendations on how to fix this problem? Or workarounds so that I can export a booklet to a PDF? I need to export it in 2-up saddle stitch mode, so I need page 1 to be next to page 12 and so on.
Thank you for the help!

You need to download and install the ADPDF9.PPD printer description and use it instead of Device Independent.

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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.
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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

Print booklet

I just layed out a booklet, which I normally do in spreads, manually imposing the pages. But my friend convinced me that it made more sense to just lay it out 1-up, and then "print booklet" to let the computer do the imposing of pages. However, after many failed attempts to get it to do it right (I suspect my indesign is just glitching out in weird ways...), it did it right, except for one detail. Even though the document is 56 pages long, it's getting 3 blank pages added to the end of it, to make up for the 3 blank pages that I have in the document, that it is ignoring. I even added some (white, so they don't actually show up visually) objects to the blank pages hoping that they would then be recognized, to no avail. Any suggestions?

When I saw your post, I thought "ARGHH ADOBE!!! What a silly thing to have to specify!" And so I went and clicked that box, and then Print Booklet, and it still printed it the same way...

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Hello.
When I used "Print Booklet" and choose PS file / PPD Adobe, my PDF (with distiller) misses just the top and left bleed in my pdf. It was blank.
The problem is for less than A4 size.
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Can I ask why you're using Print Booklet and using PS File/PPD?
This is an archaic way of making a PDF.
A couple of things to realise
The printer should do imposing, supply as pages 1-end in sequence, do not impose yourself.
Printing to PDF loses lots of PDF smartness, such as transparency, hyperlinks, and lots of other hidden details for printing goodness
If you need a PDF for yourself to print in house, why not send directly to your printer from InDesign using File>Print Booklet?
Otherwise, for your book use File>Export and choose PDF.
In Acrobat, choose the Print Booklet feature.https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/print-booklets-acrobat-reader.html

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

ID CS3 Print Booklet really needs help.

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.

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.

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Canon 4080i can't access booklet printing - Legal or Tabloid

I used to be able to do booklet printing on both Legal and Tabloid size paper. Now I only get that for Letter sized paper. Did the drivers change to disallow that or am I missing something like maybe a setting on the printer itself? Color imageRunner 4080i with AH1 and W2 over the network. Any help would be appreciated. I see that if I do it through Parallels and windowze I see those options in the print dialog there.

G Michael Otto1 wrote:
Having said that, what you are telling me is to specify the folded page size as the paper size and that won't work.
Well it sort of works for me.
With a multiple page document open in Preview, I can set the Paper Size to US Letter. I then change to the Finishing menu and select Booklet and Saddle Stitch. When I then print the job the machine errors, prompting me to load 11" x 17", which is obviously the size needed to fit two Letter size pages to a sheet to make the booklet.
If I then created a Custom Paper size of 7" x 8.5" so that I could 'use' Legal for the booklet sheet, I did find that the Booklet selection was not available. This was the case for the UFR2 and PS3 driver. Interesting side note is that the iR C5185 using the imagePASS-H1 does support the printing of booklets using Legal paper (at least through the driver it appears to support it).
So as you have found there does appear to be a limitation with the latest drivers to create a booklet using Legal paper. But booklet printing on 11x17 with Letter sized originals appears to be available with both the UFR2 and PS3 driver.

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.

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