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Print PDF as booklet

Aletue Posted messages 6 Status Member -  
Aletue Posted messages 6 Status Member -
Hello,

I just moved to Mac Yosemite. Indesign CS4 stopped working so I upgraded to Indesign CC. It works there, but I can’t print PDFs as booklets anymore...

By the way, I’m able to print a document in PS but it comes out portrait while it should be landscape...

Thanks for your help.

Configuration: Mac OS X (10.10.1) / Indesign CC

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contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   6 243
 
The "print booklet" or "print the notebook" function in the "file" menu should exist in CC version...

On PC you get a PDF directly, but on Mac, with the special printer handling, I don't know if it's necessary to go through a PS file or not.

Normally you should have a PDF printer included directly in InDesign with the default option.
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Aletue Posted messages 6 Status Member
 
Thank you for your reply. The print notebook function exists, but I don’t have the PDF printer option and I can’t add one in System Preferences/Printers & Scanners... Here are the pages I found that could help, but they didn’t resolve my problem. https://helpx.adobe.com/fr/indesign/kb/troubleshoot-printing-pdf-export-indesign.html#main_DetermineLevel</html>
http://helpx.adobe.com/fr/acrobat/kb/cant-print-pdfs-mac-os.html</html>
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contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   6 243
 
When installing Acrobat "Pro", Acrobat "Distiller" should install, which is a PDF virtual printer. In this case, the option to create a PDF would be available in the printer list. There would also be Ghostscript to create a PDF printer, but I’m not sure there is a user-friendly graphical interface for Mac.
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Aletue > contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
 
I have Acrobat Pro, the latest version but it didn’t solve the problem. I’m going to try Ghostscript.

I read somewhere that Adobe had stopped distilling...
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Aletue Posted messages 6 Status Member > contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
 
I have Acrobat Pro, the latest version but it didn't fix the problem. I'm going to try Ghostscript.

I read somewhere that Adobe had stopped Distiller
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contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   6 243
 
Distiller still exists. It is not visible because it runs in the background during a print job. But it is possible to launch it directly and in that case, you can drag and drop the PS, PRN, or EPS file to be transformed directly into the software window.

If you have correctly installed Acrobat Pro, you have also installed a PDF printer which you must find in the printer selector. https://acrobat.adobe.com/fr/fr/acrobat/how-to/print-to-pdf.html If that is not the case, your installation did not complete correctly.
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Answer 3 / 3
Aletue Posted messages 6 Status Member
 
I have uninstalled and reinstalled Acrobat Pro and it still doesn’t work.

Edit: I found a solution here http://forums.macg.co/arts-graphiques/tuto-imprimante-virtuelle-pdf-sl-lion-807892.html but I still have some small problems, I can’t locate the file once it’s converted to PDF...
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