Reply To: Making PDF Thumbnails of an Indesign Book file

You can print thumbnails to a postscript file in InDesign, and then turn that postscript file to a PDF with either Distiller or Preview. But, in my tests, I can only get it to work if the page size for the thumbnails document is letter size. When I try to export them on Tabloid-sized pages, the distilled PDF shows the thumbnails but they are just cropped off at the 8.5×11 page size. I have not found a way to make InDesign export a thumbnail postscript file that can be distilled into tabloid-sized pages.

If anyone knows how to get a tabloid-sized thumbnail page pdf, please let me know. But at least, it is possible to make a book map PDF from an existing document, if 8.5×11 pages will suffice.