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• • June 25, 2018 at 12:42 pm #104513
    Nicole Muller

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    I need to convert an InDesign file to PDF printer spreads. I thought I could do this but all I can get is a post script file with the orientation changed from landscape to portrait. The ps file had the portrait pages in the proper place it just cuts off the page.

    Any help would be terrific.

  • June 26, 2018 at 1:50 am #104525
    Niels JÌürgen Pedersen

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    Why do you use ps? Simple export a pdf directly. Select “Export..” under the “File” menu, and in the export menu select “Adobe pdf (print). And then select “spreads” – then you get an pdf in spreads.

  • June 26, 2018 at 11:03 am #104545
    Colleen Shannon

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    Niels, those are Reader Spreads, which do not represent how a printer would actually print a booklet.

    Nicole, I don’t know anyone who uses the InDesign print booklet feature. As you can see, it doesn’t work very well. If it’s a small piece, I just export the PDF and place in an InDesign spread like this: https://i.imgur.com/Cu6L5CO.jpg (If you have bleeds, you need to pull in the insides, since there are no bleeds on the inside of a booklet.)

    Basically, imposing from a PDF is the way to go. If you just want to print it, Adobe Reader/Acrobat has a booklet option.

    There are many PDF imposition plug-ins out there (some for InDesign), maybe someone here can recommend. (Sorry I haven’t used any of these recently to know)

    From Adobe:
    One such set of Acrobat plug-in products are Quite Imposing and Quite Imposting Plus (available for both MacOS and Windows) from Quite Software https://www.quite.com. Another similar product is PDF Snake (Windows only) available from https://www.pdfsnake.com.

    Otherwise, when you are searching, “imposition” is the word you should use.

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