Print Booklet Spread

InDesign CS3
I am working on an 8 page booklet, 8.5" by 5.5". I am printing using "Print Booklet". I just want to print the spread I have made changes in like 2 & 7. How do I do that. All I can find is Print All. How do I specify the page spread in the Range section?
Thank you.
Cheers! Phil

Didn't work. I tried 2, 7, Spread saddle stitched and got 2 on one page and 7 on another page.
That does not seem like a good thing. If you have a 16 page booklet and change one page you have to print the entire booklet again.
Thanks for you responses.
Cheers! Phil

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Our old print driver had the bookletizing setting built in, so if the booklet feature was part of CS5, I never noticed because I didn't use it.
So does that mean you have a new printer driver?
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OS? Version of ID? Clean install?
have you tried trashing the prefs? see Replace Your Preferences

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As far as I can tell, print booklet does just that: it prints a booklet based on just the pages you choose. It does not build a booklet that you can print spreads from. So, if you wanted to print spread 16-5 from a 20 page file, you would have to include the logical pages of the reverse side of that spread. Namely 6 and 15. (Enter 5,6,15,16 to get a four page booklet with two spreads that correspond to what would be in your 20 pager.)
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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
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click Print Settings...
Select the Print Preset you just made (yes, again)
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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
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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

Imposing a 12 page spread using Print Booklet...

For some reason, when I save this PostScript file it is only 6 pages instead of 12. Ive checked the file before pressing print and it all looks fine. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Any help will be so appreciated! Thanks!

Now for some home truths
Imposing is not your job, it's the printers job - if your printer requires this then they are not a good printers as this is standard for printing companies.
You really should use File>Export and choose PDF (print) and select your settings from there and then use the Print Booklet feature from Acrobat Print booklets | Acrobat, Reader
If this is for home printing, then it's fine - I'm not going to argue with your methods... But consider the option of Exporting to PDF and printing booklet from Acrobat as above.
Printing to PDF loses a lot of information required for professional printers - as it's passed through postscript which means it loses lots of smartness.
You lose transarencies, anything done in the fx panel, including blend modes.
Colour management is lost
Tagged PDF for accessiblity is lost
And loads of other reasons why it's a bad idea to print to PDF.

Print Booklet Bleed Issue in CS6

When I try to print the file as a booklet, the left and right bleeding of some pages does not appear on themselves; however, they appear on the next spread.
The spread goes like this, with some objects exceeding the pages for bleeding:
When I print as a booklet, the preview goes like this:
Front and Back Covers; their left and right bleed do not show...
...but instead, they reach the next spread. These blue stripes in the left and right are the continuation of the covers above.
And it keeps happening with other pages that need bleeding. The top and bottom bleed are fine.
I tried changing many options in the print booklet dialogue box, even in the printer setup itself.
It may be that I have built the spreads wrong too I am still thinking if these 2 and 21 pages are necessary to exist in the file, since they are only blank. (though I had tried deleting them too, and the issue still exist)
I looked everywhere for a solution, maybe I don't know the right terms to search for this problem...
I also noticed that everything goes well while using the Export (to PDF) command.
The reason I'm using the booklet option is to have a document with the pages in an order ready for print and staples,
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Hi Mikey!
My bad, sorry: actually there're 24 pages counting the covers and the 2 blank pages. (1-22 is the numbering for the inside content).
Even changing the page numbers won't correct the bleed.
Deciding to do something new, I isolated the pages, which first were Facing Pages.
After making a end with the spreads, the Booklet option seemed to function normally with the document bleed.
The problem is that I still would have to change the margins of the pages manually,
since they are not spreads anymore and now there's no inside/outside margins, but left/right instead.
If I could understand why I can't print the spreads as booklet would be so much better...

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

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I need to print duplex manually and so I need to print just the odd spreads and then the even spreads.
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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.

Print Booklet suddenly not working properly

I am working with InDesign CS3 in OS X 10.5. Up until this week, the Print Booklet function always worked fine for me (I only use it for generating PDFs with printer spreads). Now, however, files that printed properly in the past are generating PDFs of the wrong page size and orientation, and sometimes with the wrong scaling as well. The previews in Print Booklet still look fine, but the PDFs generated are not.
One thing that stands out in particular is that, in the past, I could take care of all the settings in the Print Settings dialogue box - printer, page size, orientation, etc. Now, if I want the right page size, I have to go into the Page Setup box and choose the page size from there. If I am dealing with an uncommon page size (which can easily be set in the Print Settings box), the Page Setup box does not have that option (or it requires establishing a new custom page size). Furthermore, even when I can get the right page size, the page orientation in the resulting PDF is wrong and the pages need to be rotated, where they didn't before.
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You updated to 10.5.5 didn't you? This is a problem with a CUPS file which has been discussed on the forums. Basically replacing the 10.5.5 version with one from 10.5.4 will fix the problem. See also this
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb406381&sliceId=2

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).
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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.
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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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