Printing to pdf on Mac...

What is the work around for printing to pdf on a Mac when you what to utilize print options to impose a file. ie: I recently needed to create a saddlestitch booklet from a document. In the past I would just print to pdf and change scaling options to booklet and either print to Adobe PDF or use the Mac pdf pulldown and bing I was done. I am running Acrobat Pro 9.5.5 and working on intel iMac running OS 10.6.8.

Hi Bob, I just tried your suggestion, but the interactive PDF is in spreads by default, no way to change the setting. When I choose to view by single page in Acrobat, it displays a single spread.
When I choose to view by spreads, it displays 4 pages, two spreads. That's the topic of this whole discussion, I believe. I do own CS 6 at home, however my employer supplied me with CS 5.5. And I have very little, if any, influence on purchasing.
So, I have no good way to make an interactive PDF (with differing recto/verso headers and footers), that is accessible and shows the correct header/footer. It's either single pages (with one header/footer), or recto/verso headers/footers but PDF only as a spread, as well as I can tell.
Unless you know something else I can do...
Best, Marilyn

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