12/31/2023 0 Comments Creating a booklet in indesign![]() ![]() For example, you will probably need to set the Orientation and perhaps Scale to Fit, so that your pages will fit on the paper. Make sure the rest of the Print dialog box is set up properly for printing on that device. If you know what device it will be printed on, choose it from the PPD pop-up menu. Choose PostScript File from the Printer pop-up menu. Click the Print Settings button at the bottom of the dialog box to open InDesign’s Print dialog box. The first step is to choose File > Print Booklet and set it up properly for your needs: However, if you truly need to turn your InDesign document into an imposed PDF, the solution is to print it to disk as a PostScript file and then use Acrobat Distiller to convert that into a PDF. ![]() Good commercial printers will ask you for a regular PDF of your document (“regular,” meaning the first page is on page 1, the second page is on page 2, and so on)… and they will do the imposition (turning it into a booklet) with their own software. And their printer told them to because the printer is either clueless, lazy, or dangerous. They’re just doing it because their printer told them to. But seriously, most people who want to get an imposed PDF out of InDesign really don’t need to. So I have two answers for people who want to export an imposed PDF: And unfortunately, Print Booklet only lets you print! There is no Export Booklet to PDF feature in InDesign. Print Booklet is terrific for doing basic imposition by putting more than one document page on the same printed page, so that when you print and fold (and sometimes cut) the pages, the right page shows up in the right place.Įvery now and again I hear from someone who is using Print Booklet but they want it to export a PDF. You know InDesign has a Print Booklet feature, hiding near the bottom of the File menu. For the most current comments, scroll to the bottom of the page. This post on the Print Booklet was originally published in 2014. We are refreshing our oldest and most popular posts with updated information and screenshots. ![]()
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