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• • November 19, 2009 at 4:56 am #53820
    Vincent2

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    Hi everyone.

    I received some great responses on my last topic that I would love your help and advice about tabbed booklets.

    My job involves plenty of work for calendar tabbed booklets in landscape format. Setting this up in CS3 is a pain! Due to the limitations in CS3, you can't create vertical page spreads and different sizes for each page. For example, if the final calendar is an A5 size, I would create an A4 landscape page and draw a guide to indicate the fold line. Doing it this way also forces me to design all the pages impositioned, rather than how it looks when it is opened. It's driving me nuts!

    I have exhausted all my resources to find the best work around:

    – I think CS4 allows you to create vertical spreads, but it still doesn't address the different page sizes to create tabbed books.

    – There has been an article to address this problem in indesignsecrets, but again faces the problem with different page sizes.
    indesignsecrets.com/two-tips-in-one-vertical-spreads-and-shared-layouts.php

    – There is a plug-in suggested by indesignsecrets called Pagecontrol 2.2. I have recommended it to my boss, but I don't think I am going to get it anytime soon. https://www.dtptools.com/produc…..sp?id=pcid

    Any tips or workarounds with my current situation? Thanks in advance.

  • November 19, 2009 at 10:02 am #53822
    Anonymous

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    I'd just design it in normal landscape way, then have another document where I place the file in at a 90 degree rotation, that has the document set up as spreads.

    You should be able to work this way, laying out in landscape non-spread version and putting it together in a facing pages document.

  • November 24, 2009 at 3:40 am #53931
    Vincent2

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    Hey Hank, thanks for your reply.

    I should actually explain what I mean by 'tabbed booklet'. All page spreads are exactly the same size, except the fold line is different on each spread. When it gets saddle stitched, the booklet forms 'tab like-pages'. Hope this makes sense.

    Your method with all the pages rotated 90 degrees works great, but it leaves empty white spaces when I export it because the pages are different sizes. I have tried manually cropping the pages in acrobat, but the tool isn't very accurate. Is there an easier way for this?

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