Creating page imposition 1

[EdFredenburgh]

Using Acrobat Pro 7 (and InDesign CS2)on a PowerBook with OS 10.5.2.
I'm trying to send a 36pp magazine layout to our new printers, who require separate PDF for each side of each spread – ie p36+p1, p2+p35, p34+p3 etc. This means extracting pages from existing spreads and re-organising them into new spreads. If I try this in the original InDesign file, the automatic page numbering will try to renumber pages. If I try it in Acrobat, I can make a new file with the right pages, in the right order; but they're not spreads (they don't appear as spreads on screen, and on the Page tab they look separated. And as the InDesign page numbering is in 2 sections, Acrobat doesn't seem to recognise its own numbering.
How do I make existing page files into new spreads – which have to be in a separate file for each spread. Should I be trying to do it in the InDesign file or in Acrobat?
Insane but... that's what the printer wants.
Should have gone to them today, so urgent help much appreciated.

 

[jmgalvin]

Depends on what's included in your versions of ID and Acrobat, but don't worry there's is a pretty simple solution no matter what.

I don't have CS2 so I don't know if Inbooklet (imposer) was dropped from this version or just CS3. To check, open your doc in ID and go to File menu. See if Inbooklet SE is at the bottom of that. If yes you can impose using that, making sure that you check "create a new ID document". Once you have the properly imposed doc, you can either extract the spreads in ID and make pdfs or you can make a pdf and extract spreads from that to create the separate pdfs.

If CS 2 doesn't have Inbooklet, check to see if Acrobat 7 (which I also don't have) will impose. Open the pdf and go to Print. Choose Adobe pdf as the printer and go to the page scaling drop down menu. See if you have Booklet Printing in that menu. If yes, use that - read up on it first in help. After the booklet is created you can open in Acrobat pro and extract spreads.

If you can't do the above, go to the Adobe site and download Adobe Reader 8. Make sure you select the version for your version of OSX AND for the correct processor - Intel or PPC.

Open your PDF of the doc in that, and go to print, choosing Adobe pdf as the printer. In the Page scaling section select Booklet printing. Read up on it in help. Make sure you select the correct PDF quality - usually Press. Create the pdf. Open in Acrobat Pro and extract the spreads. Everything will be in proper order.

Using OSX 10.3.9 & 10.4.11 on a G4, G5 & Intel Macbook