Printing odd and even pages separately (manual duplex)

Hi
I searched the forum and found some similar problems regarding Adobe Reader 8.1.2 : Adobe Reader 8.1.2 doesn't print odd and even pages correctly
This was posted more than a year ago. A few days ago I encountered the same problem with Adobe Acrobat 8.1.2. I suspected that it could be beacause of outdated software. I then applied incremental patches up to 8.1.5. But the problem still persists.

The link was about Reader, but I tried it with AA8.1.5 on a 3 page document and did indeed find the same problem. The 1st page printed out, but the 3rd page was missing when printing the odd pages. When printing the even pages, the 2nd page printed out 2 times. The 3rd page never showed up. I think this is what you are talking about. Wonder if they fixed it in AA9?

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Indesign & Xpress are professional DTP applications. They can layout pages in any order you can imagine with custom margins. They are also complex to learn & expensive in comparison to Pages.
There is a trial of Indesign IIRC…
https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/indesign.html
Quark also has a trial too…
http://www.quark.com
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I am formatting a book I want to get printed and it would be very helpful to have different margin settings on the odd and even pages so the text won't fall too close to the gutter (as happened in the proof copy I ordered!).
It's possible to do this on Word, but I can't seem to do it on Pages? Am I missing something?
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Thanks Peter. I upgraded to Pages 5 a while back. I guess my next question is.....is there any way I can downgrade to Pages 09...anywhere I can still download it from?
Seems a bit of a backward step, but needs must

Trouble printing odd or even pages

While i can print all the pages (1-701) using reader if i try to segregate them and print only the odd or even pages (to save paper by running them thru a second time on the opposite side) no matter what i do only 8 pages print and and reader spools thru the rest but fails to send the information to the printer to continue printing

As far as I know this feature is not driven by the application but by the driver.
If your driver offer this feature you may use it.
Of course, if it doesn't you can't apply it.
As you are asking to end users like you, don't expect that we know every available drivers.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 8 janvier 2011 14:03:16

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I'm using a Cannon 3600 printer capable of printing either odd or even pages of a long document when used with MS Word on a PC. However, with Pages on an iMac no such offering seems to be available. Is it possible to do this with Pages 09?

As far as I know this feature is not driven by the application but by the driver.
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As you are asking to end users like you, don't expect that we know every available drivers.
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Problem printing odd or even pages

When i print odd pages only, the last page will not be printed. If i print even pages, an extra blank page is printed.
The print dialog preview shows the correct pages to be printed, but the actual prinout differs.
This happens on documents with off number of pages.
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Hello all, Need some help on the xdp that I am working on.
This xdp has 1 Page Set- set to Print on Both Sides.
The first master page is the Odd Pages (Front pages).
The second master page is the Even Pages (Back pages).
There isn't much logic on the Even Pages as it is only static information.
The content on the Odd (Front) pages flow and page number grow depending on the XML data I feed into it. I have explicitly set the content to flow through the content are of the Odd (Front) page only. Problem is, when the data breaks, it still puts a record or two on the content area of the Even (Back) page.
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The trouble is that when you have repeating objects they will continue in the container as new instances are added. When the page overflows, Acrobat/Reader is creating a new instance of the page, in which the new instances of the repeating object can be rendered.
I had an example earlier that "jumped" a section, but in reality what it was doing was when the first page was full, it started to use a similar repeating instance on page3. Here it is, but you will need to have a close look at the script, as this was not annotated: https://acrobat.com/#d=0-YvJ8UcVW7Pyc4hhg3RmQ. It is a bit of a rough workaround, based on the height of the subform (see the click event of the add button on page1).
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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.
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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
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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)
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