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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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!

Trouble printing booklet to PDF

I'm using InDesign CS6 on Mac OS 10.6.8. I'm new to Id so any help would be appreciated.
I've created a 20 page booklet (2-up Saddle Stitch; letter-Half V), and when I choose File/Print Booklet, it looks correct in the preview pane, but no matter how I tweak the printer settings the PDF doesn't come out with the proper spread orientation. Instead, it's forced onto a single page, portrait view and, of course, half of the right side of the spread is chopped off. The pages are properly imposed, but just turned the wrong way.
Because the PDF print option doesn't show up on the printer list, I've been creating a .ps file and converting it to PDF with Adobe Distiller v10. I've tried selecting landscape in the printer settings but as soon as I change the output to postscript, many setting options become grayed-out, and my previously selected setting doesn't get applied. I also tried just exporting to PDF from Id, but it doesn't seem to give an option for a page imposition.
I've been searching for two days for a solution, but so far nothing seems to effect the final PDF layout. Please help!
Inés

You can also try a script...
Dave Saunders wrote tow of them that work quite well for simple two-up, no bleed files. The first is at http://pdsassoc.com/downloads/Buildbooklet.zip and as far as I( know still works as recently as CS6, but cannot handle crossovers at the spine. For those you can try Dave's CS3 Booklet Script
The first script shuffles the pages in a new file, and you need to export with the Spreads box checked when you are done. The scond works by placing the original pages into a new file with pages wide enough to hold two of the originals, so you export that with Spreads unchecked.

Help Please. InDesign CS3 Print Booklet to PDF

I'm desperate for any help on this issue. I have a Macbook Pro running Leopard OS X. I currently have Adobe Acrobat 8.0 installed. I'm trying to print a booklet from an InDesign file to a PDF. Whenever I run through the prompts to Print to a PDF, the sequence starts and then a PDF never shows up.
If anyone can help me figure out why this feature is not working, I would be so grateful. I'm getting ready to pull my hair out!

I'm afraid I'm not really going to be all that much help.
The PDF printer is killed by Snow Leopard, but that shouldn't be a problem for you, so it sounds like something else is going on. I'm going to defer to some of the Mac experts here on possible ways to reinstall the PDF printer or other possible fixes.

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Moving our 200 clients over to CS5 and Snow Leopard and finding out that our one coarse creates booklets and during testing it was noticed that you can't create a pdf from a booklet.
How does one do this under Snow Leopard now??
Thanks,
Dan

Yea but look right below your circle. Everything has a white background and looks like it was just thrown there. Its a wonder they didn't make the "User Accounts and Family Safety" text the same blue color as the other stuff. Luckily the icon is there to help but its hard on the eyes in my opinion.
In OS X System Preferences aka Control Panel its far easier to get around in. If it was Windows 7 it would all be a solid color....see how Personal section is lighter than the Hardware section and it then flip flops as it goes. Looking at the Windows 7 Control Panel and other things its just a bad visual design.
But this isn't the place to be talking about this so this will be my last post unless its about PDF printing and Snow Leopard. Thanks.....

Image quality problem when Printing Booklet to PDF

Hi!
I've searched the entire web trying to find a working solution for my problem but I wasn't able to find anything...
I've created a A5 vertical page document in InDesign CS6, filled with High-Quality photographs. I now want to print it as a booklet (to a PDF file) so I can save it and print it in a professional establishment.
The problem is, when I do this, the image quality turns out terrible...
I've checked my Print Settings and I can't find anything wrong...
Setup - A4 horizontally, and Graphics - Images - Send Data - is set to All.
Is there anything else I can do/try? What can I be doing wrong?
Here is an image of my print settings:
When I export the document normally to PDF the image quality is fine, but it doesn't have the booklet layout which I need, it just exports single A5 pages one after the other. If I try to print this pdf as a booklet in Adobe Reader the same thing happens to the images, they loose quality.
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Thanks : )

Hi! Thank you for your quick and helpful answer.
There's definetly something wrong with the PDF printer properties... It was on standard default, as you said... but it still didn't work when I changed it to press quality (also tried high-quality print), changed the dpi's and other few settings on the advanced preferences
My solution was to download a free-trial of a professional pdf editor/creator (Soda PDF) and print it to that program... but, of course, this is not a long-term solution...
I'll try and see if I can find any help in changing the settings to get the best quality in printing of the adobe acrobat program.
Thanks!
p.s: I think I meant to say "graphic press" when I wrote professional establishment, I'm not sure how you say it in English.

Setting compression and resolution in Print Booklet

I'm testing Print Booklet for InDesign CS6 on Windows XP, using Acrobat 8.
I can't find the settings for compression (none) and resolution (288ppi) in the InDesign
dialogue.
I can set these parameters directly in the parameter list for the 'printer' Adobe PDF,
but these actual settings are not honored. Especially I'm getting always JPEGs instead
of no compression.
These are the most important windows:
Sorry for intermediate confusion.
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann
Message was edited by: G.Hoffmann

For other readers:
InBooklet SE – an imposition module in InDesign CS2
Print Booklet – an imposition module in later versions, here CS6
IDImpose – an optional imposition module: http://idimposer.com/
Peter, according to your post #3 one might assume that Print Booklet is
working as expected, if the operator follows some simple rules.
No, it doesn't, but I agree to your statement
Print Booklet to PDF isn't really a recommended workflow
I've updated CS6 for the newest state, it's now ID 8.01.
There are a couple of problems, using Print Booklet for 'printing' as PDF:
a) Settings for Resolution and Compression cannot be found in InDesign dialogues.
    External settings in the 'printer' Adobe PDF are ignored.
b) Some Encapsulated PostScript components are considered as buggy, though
    Export to PDF without Print Booklet for the same pages is flawless, and furtheron
    these components themselves are correctly interpreted by other programs
    (MathType, Photoshop, PSAlter...).
This is the error log:
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[Page: 1]%%
%%[Page: 2]%%
%%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: makefont ]%%
Stack:
[448.0 0.0 0.0 -448.0 0.0 0.0]
-file-
-mark-
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
Obviously, Print Booklet uses the somewhat outdated workflow via PostScript
and Distiller. This is not generally wrong (worked pretty good with PageMaker),
but here it fails.
Now a few words about IDImposer, which I had tested:
This program creates an imposed version of an InDesign file by generating one PDF
for each page. These pages should be uncompressed and not downsampled, which
is unnecessary for InBooklet SE, where we have only links to already existing
components. The new ID doc contains one PDF per page in the imposed page structure.
Therefore nothing is editable by InDesign. The following Export to PDF leads normally
to correct documents with working Links for URLs (garbled in just one case).
This is obviously not an optimal substitute for InBooklet SE.
Thanks for the discussion.
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

Can't print .indd booklet to PDF; opens print utility instead of Acrobat

Thanks in advance for any help you can lend.
I have a 16 page .indd document that I'm trying to export via "print booklet", using Adobe PDF 9.0 as my printer. Every time I try to print as a PDF, it goes through the process of compiling the images, loading fonts, etc., but then my printer utility opens (obviously giving an error) instead of Acrobat. When I just choose export as PDF I have no issues whatsoever; Acrobat opens and it saves properly. I need the document, though, in a saddle stitch imposed format for the printer.
I'm on Mac OSX Lion 10.7.2
Acrobat X version 10.1.3
Adobe InDesign CS5.5
The setting summary of the print dialogue is as follows:
Print Preset: [Custom]
Printer: Adobe PDF 9.0
PPD: Adobe PDF 9.0
PPD File: /var/folders/74/_l7wb86j7plcvb5kz2hwgmh00000gn/T//4f9757064d509
Print Booklet
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    Auto Adjust Margins: On
    Top Margin: 0.2917 in
    Bottom Margin: 0.2917 in
    Left Margin: 0.2917 in
    Right Margin: 0.2917 in
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    Creep: 0 in
    Bleed Between Pages: N/A
    Signature Size: N/A
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    Pages: All
    Sequence: All Pages
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    Print Master Pages: Off
    Print Layers: Visible & Printable Layers
    Print Non-printing Objects: Off
    Print Blank Pages: Off
    Print Visible Guides and Baseline Grids: Off
Setup
    Paper Size: Tabloid Oversize
    Paper Width: 12 in
    Paper Height: 18 in
    Page Orientation: Landscape
    Paper Offset: 0 in
    Paper Gap: 0 in
    Transverse: Off
    Scaling: 100%
    Constrain Proportions: On
    Page Position: Centered
    Thumbnails: Off
    Tiling: Off
Marks and Bleed
    Crop Marks: On
    Bleed Marks: Off
    Registration Marks: Off
    Color Bars: Off
    Page Information: Off
    Printer Mark Type: Default
    Crop Mark Weight: 0.25 pt
    Mark Offset from Page: 0.0833 in
    Use Document Bleed Settings: On
    Bleed Top: 0 in
    Bleed Bottom: 0 in
    Bleed Inside: 0 in
    Bleed Outside: 0 in
    Include Slug Area: Off
Output
    Color: Composite CMYK
    Text As Black: Off
    Trapping: Off
    Flip: None
    Negative: Off
    Screening: Default
    Simulate Overprint: Off
    Frequency: 60
    Angle: 45
Graphics
    Send Data: Optimized Subsampling
    Download: Complete
    Download PPD Fonts: On
    PostScript®: Level 2
    Data Format: ASCII
Color Management
    Document Profile: U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2
    Color Handling: Let InDesign Determine Colors
    Printer Profile: Document CMYK - U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2
    Preserve CMYK Numbers: On
    Proof Profile: Document CMYK
    Simulate Paper Color: On
Advanced
    Print &as Bitmap: On
    Bitmap Resolution: 300
    OPI Image Replacement: Off
    EPS: Off
    PDF: Off
    Bitmap Images: Off
    Transparency Flattener Preset: [Medium Resolution]
    Ignore Spread Overrides: Off
I'm on Mac OSX Lion 10.7.2
Acrobat X version 10.1.3

I'm a Windows user, so I may not have this exactly right, but printing to PDF from Print Booklet on Mac is a two-step process -- first you printto Postscript file using the Acrobat 9 ppd, then you distill the file. I think you'll find more details at InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Acrobat’s Adobe PDF Printer Replaced in Snow Leopard

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Long time ID user in Agency. Created a simple 4 page brochure in CS5.5 ID. Facing pages for cust size 11x17 half fold document.
Generating the pdf for Press and HQ Print renders a nice high res document, but the print booklet feature only produces a skinny low res version. Tried to mess with the printer settings, but the result is the same with a skinny low res document.
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I worked around it this time by printing to .ps output then distilling, and then splitting the document so printer could have a "front" and "back" 11x17. But this seems kludged big time. This has to be a bug unless I am missing something.

You probably never changed the default settings in the PDF printer properties. In the print booklet dialog, click the Print Settings button, then the Setup button at the bottom of the Print Dialog that pops up, choose the PDF printer and click on Preferences. Reset the default reset the default settings to the ones you really want to use, or reset them in Windows... Control Panel > Devices and Printers... Double-click the PDF printer, then from the print queue dialog, Printer > Properties... General tab and clcik the Preferences button.

Print Booklet fails to create PDF

Greetings all,
I've encountered a frustrating glitch in Print Booklet that doesn't seem to be mentioned in these forums or elsewhere on the web.
I regularly use Print Booklet to create imposed PDF files with the following workflow:
Click File > Print Booklet...
Click Print Settings...
Select Adobe PDF 9.0 Printer
Click Printer...
Check PDF settings, change as required
Click Print
Enter file name details
Click Save
Click OK in print settings dialogue box
Click Print in Print Booklet dialogue box
Wait for PDF to be created.
Most of the time this works fine but all of a sudden the PDF file has failed to be created. No error messages appear - nothing happens at all. The usual PDF progress bars appear in InDesign as it processes each page, but then nothing.
I've had this happen in another similar document but thought it was a corruption in the particular InDesign file and have just ignored it up until now.
The current document is a 24 page colour catalogue and contains many hi rez images. I wonder if the size of the document has exceeded some kind of memory requirement somewhere?
I've been able to use Print Booklet to create a PDF of the first 20 pages, or the last 20, but not the entire document.
The only difference in the document since it last worked correctly is that a few more images have been added and some more text, but no extra pages.
I'm using InDesign CS3 and Acrobat 9 Pro on a MacBook Pro with 4Gb RAM running Mac OS X 10.5.
Any suggestions much appreciated!

Hi Dave,
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I'm not sure that the PDF virtual printer is actually installed after Acrobat 9 since it no longer works in Mac after Snow Leopard.
There are scripts that will allow you to do simple two-up impositions that don't use creep, and an inexpensive (used to be free, and might be still) plugin for more complex impositions: Overview | IDImposer
But this printer is really not doing his job if he wants you to d the imposition, and I'd be very suspicious of his ability to output your file correctly. Do you have other options?

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.
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an acrobat setting or an InDesign setting?
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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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Hi,
I'm preparing something for print, and I've run into a couple of questions I'd love some advice on.
The printshop wants the A5 booklet as a A4+bleed PDF, so I'm producing 'Print Booklet' to a Postscript with the PDF PPD and using Apple's Preview to convert to PDF. Is Preview's conversion going to cause me any problems, for example any unwanted compression/other unpleasant surprises?
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James

Hi, Your problem may be the creep setting. Set it to 0. Also, I often encounter white hairlines (object boxes) that come & go depending on the zoom setting. I've learned to trust they do not print at the print shop.
I have a questions to add to this.....
I just upgraded from SC2 to SC6 and swtiched from PC to Mac OS Lion (10.7). I'm having trouble with print booklet settings - I'd like to set to device independent, but it won't seem to output on anything other than letter size; the settings to change paper size on device independent is greyed out). It will only print on letter size, meaning I only get the even pages of the booklet spreads. I too am a control freak and like to make sure everything is lined up perfectly before sending off to printer. I can get it to work if I use my home printer ppd (whimpy inkjet), but feel uncomfortable having it be dependent on that ppd as opposed to the professional printer ppd.
Our former printer imposed the pages from a pdf file... but our current printer wants it in booklet.
Thanks -
davyne

Printing a booklet, my pdf includes the bleed within the page size

I produce a 24 page document, and have just tried to used the print booklet command to create the printer spreads, rather than imposing manually, printing to a PDF.
However the final pdf pages are set to A3, including the bleed marks, and this means that the final printed product ends up being smaller than A3 after cropping.
When doing this manually, I had a PDF preset I was using. I have found a way to get that preset into the Booklet setup, but the final pdf page size is still too small.

Under page scaling in the print dialog select none and choose a bigger page size. Don't set final pdf pages to A3 as this leaves no room for trims....

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