InBooklet in Indesign CS3

[budafist]

In Indesign CS2 I used to be able to impose a book using InBooklet and have an imposed Indesign file which I could then add all my colour bars and stuff onto.

I can't seem to do this in Indesign CS3.

What I can do is make a postscript of the imposition and then distill it to make a pdf, but I'd rather have an Indy file.

Suggestions?

[hewligan]

Ah! I ran into this problem last year. And I found a solution. But I forget what it was. And I don't have CS3 at work.

But at least you know there is a solution, right?

Actually, I think it was just that stuff had been moved around, and I found it in a different place...

[budafist]

Well, for now, for just this one job, I'm just going to do it without the colour bars and stuff that the printers need.

I could impose it manually like usual, but it's Monday morning and I just want to get this off my desk :)

[garricks]

buda, they renamed it. it's at the bottom of the FILE menu, and called "Print Booklet" :D

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/GDF/Picture4.jpg

[budafist]

Yeah, did that garricks, but all I can seem to save to is a postscript file. I can't find the save as an Indesign file option (create new document)?

[garricks]

:o Oh, never really used it, I just saw it was there.
I found this in the Web version of the help page for Print Booklet (http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8 cb3f-7049.html):

http://livedocs.adobe.com/images/mm.gif http://livedocs.adobe.com/images/questionans.gif Bob - Adobe Writer said on Aug 29, 2007 at 8:16 AM : The InBooklet feature in CS2 did allow you to create a new document based on the imposition, but the implementation was flawed in some ways. Specifically, images that spanned a spread and numbered lists weren't processed correctly in all cases. The Print Booklet feature doesn't allow you to create a new document with the rearranged pages. For more information on imposing documents, see the InDesign user forum (http://www.adobe.com/support/forums). Search for "print booklet."

[budafist]

Specifically, images that spanned a spread and numbered lists weren't processed correctly in all cases.

But I usually design with those in mind. Damn. Doesn't sound promising.

No screen name said on Jan 14, 2008 at 3:58 AM :
A useful script has been posted on the user forum which will create a pdf from a booklet, but the margins are altered.

Why does Adobe not address this issue of InDesign CS3 being unable to print an imposed booklet to pdf? It is such an important feature to be without.

No screen name said on Jan 14, 2008 at 11:03 AM :
If you still have access to CS2, you can see that InBooklet was a 3rd party plugin from ALAP. Quark bought ALAP. No more InBooklet.

Bugger.

[semioticantics]

Specifically, images that spanned a spread... Actually, it seems to throw a wobbly over anything that spans a spread. It's this that's always bugged me about the booklet feature - it results in a lot of running back through to copy/paste and change bounding boxes. I wonder if there's a way to run through every object and test if it spans a spread and then duplicate it for the page it normally wouldn't end up on so that the booklet feature doesn't screw things up... (starts running through the API)

[garricks]

Dumb question (because I always let my printer impose my docs...I can do it manually, but they say they prefer to do it themselves). Can Acrobat do imposition?

buda, I realize that by now your document is well on its way to being in the cient's hands. :D

[budafist]

I work at a printing company so I'm the one that sends the files imposed to plate. I do usually impose stuff manually when I get 1 up pdfs from my clients. But this time I was doing the design and I thought I might as well try to automate it instead of doing it by hand like I do normally.

As I said, I was just being lazy. Still, would be nice if Indy did this for me.