Help printing booklet spreads from Indesign 1

[kradloff]

I am working on several projects which entail booklets that will be printed on 8-1/2x11 paper, then folded and saddlestitched to form a 5-1/2x8-1/2" booklet. My problem is getting the project to print correctly, so that, for example, page 1 and page 4 are side by side, so when folded they make the front and back of the booklet. When I tell InDesign to print Spreads, it prints page 1 next to page 2. I can't find a "Booklet" option that would re-shuffle the pages in the way I need them to be.

I work for an nonprofit organization where we have our own small offset press and I have to provide camera-ready print-outs to our printer for her to make plates and/or make photocopies, depending on the number of booklets needed. So I need to be able to get this to work on my own -- I don't have an outside vendor to help me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[jimoblak]

Search for 'booklet' and 'imposition' here and at adobeforums.com for existing discussion on this.

There is a free script on the InDesign CD and also at

http://studio.adobe.com/

You can also try the 15-day demo of inbooklet from alap.com

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Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[Kliot]

What version of indesign are you using? Version 2.0 came with a program called buildbook.exe that will do what you want, build book can be found on the Indesign CD. Build book doesn't run on CS There are some 3rd party products you can buy or I have a javascript program that was posted at Adobe IndesignScripting. I'll post the code below, simply copy and paste it into a word processor and save it with the extension .js in the "InDesign CS\Presets\Scripts" directory. To run the script doubleclick it from the scripts pallet.

//DESCRIPTION: Minimalist Build Booklet 

myPages = app.documents[0].pages; 

// Let's make sure that the pages are a multiple of four 
app.documents[0].documentPreferences.allowPageShuffle = false; 

if (Math.round(myPages.length/4)*4 != myPages.length) { 
// alert(myPages.length);
alert("Document length isn't a multiple of four, add Blank Pages to the end of the Document."); 
exit(); 
} 

for (i=0; i<myPages.length; i++) { 
newSection = app.documents[0].sections.add(undefined,undefined,{pageStart:app.documents[0].pages[i],continueNumbering:false,pageNumberStart:(i+1)}); 
} 
app.documents[0].documentPreferences.allowPageShuffle = true; 

for (i=0; i<(myPages.length/2); i++){ 
if (isEven(i)) { 
app.documents[0].pages[myPages.length - 1].move(LocationOptions.before,app.documents[0].pages[i*2],BindingOptions.leftAlign); 
} else { 
app.documents[0].pages[myPages.length - 1].move(LocationOptions.after,app.documents[0].pages[i*2],BindingOptions.rightAlign); 
} 
} 

function isEven(n) { 
return ((Math.round(n/2))*2 == n); 
}

I hope this helps
Perrin

 

[treznorhk]

We use a product called InBooklet for inDesign 2.0 or CS, Windows and MAC. The cost is $99.00 per system. It works very well and it does not modify the document but handles the imposition completely within the printing system. Check out

http://www.alap.com

and click "inBooklet" in the left column.


Zachary Mackay
Mackay Photography, Inc

http://www.mackayphoto.com