Problems with 'Print Booklet' from InDesign CS4

I am having problems using the 'Print Booklet commane in InDesign CS4. I have done this 100s of time from CS3 with no problems but for some reason it just won't auto duplex (print on both sides of the paper) when I do it from CS4. USing exactly the same settings, computer and file. The printer is setup correctly as will print double-sided automatically from other apps. Using mac leopard. Any ideas?

Unfortunately, I have tried this. I choose 'layout' from the printer option within the driver and pick 'short edged binding'. Still no luck.

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Are you patched to 5.0.4?
I run XP SP2, rather than 3, and Acrobat 9 pro (now at version 9.3.2) and I haven't had a problem using Print Booklet to make a PDF, so I suspect either it's something in SP3, or more likely a problem on the system.
First thing might be to try replacing your preferences. See Replace Your Preferences
Next might be to unistall the PDF printer and reinstall it (does it work outside of Print Booklet?). Make sure you update Acrobat first, if you haven't already done so.
If neither of those works, see if there's anything else running in the background that could be causing a problem.
Finally, if nothing is working, it's time to look at a scripted solution. I know two scripts, both by Dave Saunders, that can handle simple two-up saddle stitch impositions without creep. One is better than the other if you have objects crossing the spine, but neither is as sophiticated in what it can do as Print Booklet, which can handle perfect binding with various signature sizes.

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Good morning,
Could you help explain and possibly resolve an issue I'm having with an InDesign CS4 pdf file where the text and image drop shadows (40%) are printing as solid black blocked shapes from a large format printer. The file encompasses 1 overall image, 1 image with drop shadow, 3 text frames with drop shadow effect applied to the text and 1 group set of simple rectangular and ellipse objects with a glow.
My colleagues in graduate school experienced the same with their files and the output bureau's rasterized the pdf file in Photoshop where it printed out with good resolution. Shouldn't this be resolved first in InDesign rather than rasterizing the file?
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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.
I didn't want to recreate the brochure as a two page manually imposed as I like the option of being able to add more pages in increments of four of course. Plus it's just silly to do that when ID is supposed to handle it for me.
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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.

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I recently registered & installed CS6 on my computer (Last week!), and I seem to have problems with Indesign, which is the main reason for my buying the product.
The problem is that whenever I try to save & export a file as PDF from Indesign I get an error message (See attached file).
The files are saved with 0KB size, and so the Acrobat reader can't open them for preview.
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Without proper system info and details about what PDF settings you actually used and how and where you save your files, nobody can say anything. You could simply be doing something silly like using PDF/A, but trying to enforce high-res pictures or whatever. In any case, ask in the ID forum.
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Hi All,
In my project i am printing the datas in a JTable by a click of the button.I have used the following link:-
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/Programming/JDCBook/advprint.html
to print that data from the JTable.The main problem i have is that
1) The font size in which the tableheader and tabledatas printed are so small.So that i need to increase the font size for both tableheader and tabledatas?
2)When i click the printButton for printing it opens a dialog box showing print range from 1 to 9999. And in the pages from 1 to 9999.
I don't want this.I want only 1 to 1.I know that by using Pageable
interface u can change it.But i don't know how to do it
Any one help me to solve this 2 problems i will be very thankful to u.It is Urgent.For ur reference i will provide my Code:-
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.io.*;
public class PrintReportPanels extends JPanel implements Printable
JTable tableView;
String aLine="";
DefaultTableModel model;
Vector columnNames = new Vector();
Vector data = new Vector();
JScrollBar jsb = new JScrollBar(JScrollBar.HORIZONTAL);
JScrollBar jsb1 = new JScrollBar(JScrollBar.VERTICAL);
JPanel southPanel=new JPanel();
JPanel printPanel=new JPanel();
JButton printButton=new JButton();
int v=ScrollPaneConstants.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED;
int h=ScrollPaneConstants.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED;
private Font fnt=new Font("Arial",Font.PLAIN,20);//Not working for increasing the font size
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this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
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UIManager.put("ScrollBar.thumb",Color.blue);
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this.add(jsb,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
this.add(jsb1,BorderLayout.EAST);
this.add(southPanel,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
southPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
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printButton.setBackground(Color.white);
printPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
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this.validate();
this.repaint();
printButton.addActionListener( new ActionListener(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
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     pj.setPrintable(PrintReportPanels.this);
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     try{
          pj.print();
     }catch (Exception PrintException) {}
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat,int pageIndex) throws PrinterException
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     g2.setColor(Color.black);
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     int fontDesent=g2.getFontMetrics().getDescent();
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     double pageWidth = pageFormat.getImageableWidth();
     double tableWidth = (double) tableView.getColumnModel().getTotalColumnWidth();
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          scale = pageWidth / tableWidth;
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tableView.getTableHeader().getHeight()*scale;
     double tableWidthOnPage=tableWidth*scale;
     double oneRowHeight=(tableView.getRowHeight()+
tableView.getRowMargin())*scale;
     int numRowsOnAPage=
(int)((pageHeight-headerHeightOnPage)/oneRowHeight);
     double pageHeightForTable=oneRowHeight*numRowsOnAPage;
     int totalNumPages= (int)Math.ceil((
(double)tableView.getRowCount())/numRowsOnAPage);
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return NO_SUCH_PAGE;
     g2.translate(pageFormat.getImageableX(),
pageFormat.getImageableY());
     g2.drawString("Page: "+(pageIndex+1),(int)pageWidth/2-35, //For printing the page no. at the bottom
(int)(pageHeight+fontHeight-fontDesent));//bottom center
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     //clip to the appropriate bounds.
     if (pageIndex + 1 == totalNumPages)
int lastRowPrinted = numRowsOnAPage * pageIndex;
int numRowsLeft = tableView.getRowCount() - lastRowPrinted;
g2.setClip(0, (int)(pageHeightForTable * pageIndex),
(int) Math.ceil(tableWidthOnPage),
(int) Math.ceil(oneRowHeight * numRowsLeft));
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     else{
g2.setClip(0, (int)(pageHeightForTable*pageIndex),
(int) Math.ceil(tableWidthOnPage),
(int) Math.ceil(pageHeightForTable));
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     g2.scale(1/scale,1/scale);
     g2.translate(0f,pageIndex*pageHeightForTable);
     g2.translate(0f, -headerHeightOnPage);
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(int)Math.ceil(headerHeightOnPage));
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public static void main(String[] args)
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     frame.setVisible(true);
Pls. do provide the reply and tell me where i go wrong.I will be waiting for ur reply.It is very Urgent.
Thanx,
m.ananthu

Hi conner,
1) My font size problem is over i have used the tablename.setFont(new Font("Arial",Font.PLAIN,20)).It does change the font size of the JTable contents but the JTable Header still remains the same.I want to change the font size of the JTable header as well.How to do it?
2)According to my second problem can u provide the code of how to change the page range from 1 - 9999 to 1-1?So that i will be very thankful to u.
Thanx,
m.ananthu

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