Great tutorial. Concise. And thank you for not starting with "First we need to create a document in inDesign and on and on...". You get to the point and stay on topic. Thank you!
THANK YOU LADY!!!!! You saved my curiosity on how to properly make a Book/Magazine. I have a BA in Graphic Design as of Dec.21 2013 and I wish you were my Indesign teacher lol. This was the only thing that was of my curiosity on how the pages match up! I think I love you! Now to apply for this job! You saved my life!
Thanks so much for the help! Tip: Everyone on a mac with adobe CC - if you cant find distiller, right click the Postscript file > Open With > and it should come up
Thank you very much :) You taught me what I needed to know very fast and went into detail about things I needed to do like save text as outlines by creating a preset - great job
Can you please tell me how to do this but printing in multiple signatures! I'm making a book and the paper is thick and I can only do signatures with no more than 4 sheets of paper. I am doing a hard cover book so my file won't be the actual covers of the book plus I'm doing multiple signatures
girl you literally saved me HOURS UPON HOURS of going back and forth checking if everything matches, this is a godsent video. I dont understand why they didn't show us this video day 1 in typography course, it boggles my mind...
8 years on and this video is still helping the community. Thank you for such a clear and detailed video. All went well with the project until mid-printing I ran out of ink and had to stop the printer after 121. Now when I tried to print the balance pages, choosing print/range from 121 to 282, the pagination gets completely distorted, i.e ID considers page 121 as the "cover" and wants to print the back cover behind 121. Do you have a solution for this please? Is there a way to make ID print the booklet in the same page order within a page range? Your help is appreciated.
Hi, Just saw your video....thank you for this. I'm using a Mac and when I save my booklet using postscript the ps (covered to pdf) document come out as in the vertical A4 instead of the landscape A4. I've tried changing settings, and it just doesn't seem to work. Could you help me with this?
Hey! thank you very much for your tutorial. Now, what if I have Mac and I don't have that PDF option? How can I get that? I have already tried with the Postcript option, and then converting it on the Distiller, but this cuts me a part of the page. Thank you!!
Hi your video was pretty helpful although I don't know why no matter what I do the pages aren't ever aligning next to each other. eg 5-6,6-7 instead they go like 1-36, 3-34 etc. Please help I don't know where am I going wrong?
I did not use Indesign before for Printing, I use illustrator make custom bleeds and other methods for Booklet printing. But Indesign just make it more easier.
Thanks for the great tute. One thing that seems tricky for me is to have my back cover line up on the correct page. I always seem to end up with a blank page on the back cover rather than what I want.
+Bill Lang Just to clear that up - the back page is back page is blank and the image ends up on page 34 - even when I add empty pages on he end of the book. (It is a 36 pager with content only to page 33. The back cover should effectively be p 36
Hi! I'm on an iMac, running InDesign CC and am trying to get my booklet into pdf form so I can have it printed somewhere(Staples, etc. because I don't have a printer and my school printer isn't capable) else. I can't find Adobe Distiller online, so I looked around and saw that I can do this through the Preview App. When I create a pdf of it, they appear as single individual pages rather than side by side pages. Viewing the pdf in 'two page' made shows that the pages are still in the correct order that I would like for them to be printed, but will they print side by side(and front and back) in that order (on a single sheet of paper)? I'm concerned that viewing the document in 'two page' mode is merely for preference of viewing than purpose of printing. Your video was extremely helpful in figuring this out, thank you so much!
Xchovenei If you have a CC subscription, Distiller should be available to download from Adobe Manager. If your printer knows what they are doing, they can arrange your current PDF to print what you need for a back to back booklet, but that might not be the case for Staples. Essentially what Print to Booklet does is put your individual pages into one printable sheet in the order you want. For example, a 6x9 booklet actually is 12x9 flat and the actual pages are not in order in the way you design them. Take two regular sheets of paper, fold them like a booklet and number each page 1-8 and you'll see what I mean. These spreads are what you printer needs to print the booklet in the right order. If you don't have Distiller, you can design your booklet the old fashioned way which means you design in the booklet order on full spreads (like the paper mockup) versus on 1-8 individual pages in your document. I think a video on this alternate method would be ideal!
Perfect. Thank you. You and Distiller has saved me. I don't suppose you could help with another issue I am having. My 'Print Adobe PDF' option from the print menu isn't working. Any idea why this could be?
Thank you for making this video! I only have one question and is about the printing on both pages, I don't see an option on the print settings for this, or is it automatic? thanks in advance!!
You're welcome! That is a setting specific to your printer. If your printer doesn't have double sided printing then you won't see this option. I was making in house booklets on a copy machine so that is where this came in handy most!
Hi I am struggling to have a booklet with no borders or white space at all sides, each time i take out a print booklet it comes out with white borders as the printer doesn't give a borderless print, Is there any way to get a borderless print booklet....Thanks Jo
It would be grateful if you create and upload a video related to table of contents like how to create, tabs, chapter title, etc. Please try to make a video on this.
What paper size did you put on the Indesign because my said warning the booklet doesn’t fit the current paper size. Click print settings to specify a larger paper size or to scale the booklet to fit.
Great Video!!! Ok, I managed to "print" my 88-page booklet using "Print Booklet" to a pdf file, but the pages in the pdf file are all cut off. I have re-done this 8 times now and I can't figure out why the paper size isn't matching up. It looks good in the "Print Booklet" preview, but then it's wrong in the pdf file. Any idea why? TIA.
Thank you for the turorial very well explained. I have a question regarding setting up full bleed images as part of a booklet, it seems that when I send the booklet to print I get a white space between pages, how could I fix this? I would appreciate the feedback.
hi at the booklet type options, which one is the option where the book is "stiched with thread" not glue, not staples.. or it doesnt matter, just choose one option..?? THX
I have gain so much knowledge from this tutorial but I have a one confusion. You learnt that if you save pdf in booklet on pc then you can save (4X6 booklet default) and I will save pdf on mac I can change only (4X6 booklet default) into (postscript) file ? And other settings is remain same?
I have a question about printing a booklet I have made a book but the pages are from 1-100 in order but I want to print A3 because I want to use stitch. In indesign the A3.
Great Tutorial, Is there a way to arrange the pages correctly without adding in a blank page? If my pages included a bleed, would it make the process difficult? I want to start creating CD booklets with saddle stitch.
I created a new tutorial specifically addressing the postscript in Distiller issues some of you are experiencing. Stay tuned, it's releasing this week.
How do you print to your own printer? I have a booklet that's 5.5 x 8.5 so it can print 2 up on a letter page and I can't get it to print to my own printer double sided. I have tried 3 printers and they only come out single sided. Any suggestions?
Thank you very much for this tutorial. But I still struggle with an issue "multiple page sizes". But I have no idea why. because I use just one size of page. And in this case I can't print a booklet. Would you know what to do with that? I've double checked my document setup and all sizes of pages. Thank you again!
Why i can't find the Adobe PDF option for printer in the Print Preset Window? [5:01] I only can choose ps format and it doesn't allow me to customize the paper size
It is nice and organized when you have elements within individual pages. Question is how do you deal with graphics that stretch the span of TWO pages? For example, a two page advert with a wide image. This will surely confuse InDesign's Print to Booklet feature.
Redbird Not at all. You would build your spread as you normally would and have the image fill where you want it to go. Don't split it up, actually size it to fill the desired space. InDesign creates the full spread just as it normally would when items are neatly on their own pages. Actually this method lines up spreads better for publications over individual PDFs for each page (common for magazine press productions). Since the pages aren't technically separated from the sheet/spread, the fold line is irrelevant at not lining up the image on both sides of the spread. Of course this all comes down to how your printer operates though. I've worked in both situations but more commonly with individual pages as PDFs. The image spanning both spreads is never 100% perfectly lined up in that case. Thanks for watching!
How would you print on a machine that doesn't duplex? Is there a way to tell it to one set and then rerun it printing the pages it missed the first time around?
7 years later, STILL the best video on the subject!!!!!!! Thank you so much ! 📖
Thank you!!! I'm happy it's held up over the years.
I AGREE!!!! This just saved me in 2022! I’ve watched quite a few, but you hit on all of the important points.
As someone new to InDesign, needing to learn it specially to make a multi-page folded booklet, this tutorial was exactly what I needed! Thank you!!
Great tutorial. Concise. And thank you for not starting with "First we need to create a document in inDesign and on and on...". You get to the point and stay on topic. Thank you!
Thank you for the nice comment. Means a lot. Thanks for watching!
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THANK YOU LADY!!!!! You saved my curiosity on how to properly make a Book/Magazine. I have a BA in Graphic Design as of Dec.21 2013 and I wish you were my Indesign teacher lol. This was the only thing that was of my curiosity on how the pages match up! I think I love you! Now to apply for this job! You saved my life!
Awwww, that's super awesome! Glad to help.
Finally soone who speaks in a calm way and getting to the point asap
I haven't used InDesign in a long time and this video was definitely helpful!! thank you!!
Yay! Thanks for watching! 😄
2024 and you saving my life! Thank you so much for this video. The best one I found on the subject.
Thanks so much for the help! Tip: Everyone on a mac with adobe CC - if you cant find distiller, right click the Postscript file > Open With > and it should come up
Thanks for sharing the tip!
Your tutorial saved me so much stress this exam season, thank you!!! 💚
Adobe Acrobat Pro DC makes this so easy. You can even select a range of sheets and which face of the sheets to print!!! Brilliant
Thank you so much! That print blank pages saved the day!
Thanks fo rthis! to the point and informative, and the pace is just right 🖤
This is so complicated.. thank you for making all of this transparent and walk us through
It is and happy to help!
Thank you very much :) You taught me what I needed to know very fast and went into detail about things I needed to do like save text as outlines by creating a preset - great job
Dennis Donnelly Awesome! Thanks for the sweet comment. :-)
Finally! I will use Indesign because you make me Indesign is very easy Thanks a lot.
you saved my day. spent about 4 hours figuring out why my pages jumbled.
really great tutorial. perfect balance of elaboration/ getting straight to the point. thank you!
Appreciate that. Thanks for watching!
Thank you from bottom of my heart ❤
Thank you so much, my problem was the fucking spreads that I didn't know they have to be an odd number. Thank you again😍🤯👏🏻
Thank you so much! I can not wait to start setuping. I want to create original soft for comrcials and shows alongside my many other
THANK YOU ! I've been looking for this for a while now ! this tip is a life saver !! many thanks again !
A big big thank you from Bomet Kenya! This saved a serious situation.
That's awesome, so glad to hear it! :)
I feel 10x more confident in soft soft, thanks!
You saved my ife! :D Thank you so much. I started thinking that my Indesign is broken since it didn't work.
Can you please tell me how to do this but printing in multiple signatures! I'm making a book and the paper is thick and I can only do signatures with no more than 4 sheets of paper. I am doing a hard cover book so my file won't be the actual covers of the book plus I'm doing multiple signatures
print blank pages checkbox - god send thank you!
Right?! Such a kicker, but amazing once you know that trick.
You SAVED my life!
Excellent video! You are a very good teacher! Thank You!
girl you literally saved me HOURS UPON HOURS of going back and forth checking if everything matches, this is a godsent video.
I dont understand why they didn't show us this video day 1 in typography course, it boggles my mind...
I'm dating myself but when I started they had Adobe PageMaker - things are sooo much faster/easier now I can't even tell you ;)
8 years on and this video is still helping the community. Thank you for such a clear and detailed video. All went well with the project until mid-printing I ran out of ink and had to stop the printer after 121. Now when I tried to print the balance pages, choosing print/range from 121 to 282, the pagination gets completely distorted, i.e ID considers page 121 as the "cover" and wants to print the back cover behind 121. Do you have a solution for this please? Is there a way to make ID print the booklet in the same page order within a page range? Your help is appreciated.
Thank you! been struggling to figure out why the front and back cover won't preview together all day. Just added 2 pages and it's finally solved :)
Thank you so much for this video. my confusion left in just a snap
Thanks for the video! Very helpful and easy to follow instructions
Very Clear Ideas, its most useful
Absolutely fantastic tutorial.....Thanks so much....I'm subscribing.
Welcome to the Design Like a Pro fam! :)
Design Like a Pro Thank you...I must say your tutorials are the best by far that I've came across to-date....Great job.
Thank you so much. You've earned my subscription.
Thank you very much! Such a time and resources savings method!
OMG this is exactly what I needed to know, thanks!
Myśli złote albo niezłote Awesome!!! Glad it helped.
Thanks a lot. This really helped
Hi, Just saw your video....thank you for this. I'm using a Mac and when I save my booklet using postscript the ps (covered to pdf) document come out as in the vertical A4 instead of the landscape A4. I've tried changing settings, and it just doesn't seem to work. Could you help me with this?
You are amazing!! Thank you!!
Life saver!
Thanks alot mam!! You saved me from lot of trouble!! Keep up the good work.. :)
lovely video with in depth explanation but 1 question. How does one do the importings
STILL helps! Thank you!
Hey! thank you very much for your tutorial. Now, what if I have Mac and I don't have that PDF option? How can I get that? I have already tried with the Postcript option, and then converting it on the Distiller, but this cuts me a part of the page.
Thank you!!
Same problem. I wish I knew the solution.
For those who want to skip the fluff, the info you're looking for starts at about 3:30.
Wow! I like your edit!
Hi your video was pretty helpful although I don't know why no matter what I do the pages aren't ever aligning next to each other. eg 5-6,6-7 instead they go like 1-36, 3-34 etc. Please help I don't know where am I going wrong?
Thank you for this great tutorial.
Thank you! Exactly the information I needed!
I did not use Indesign before for Printing, I use illustrator make custom bleeds and other methods for Booklet printing. But Indesign just make it more easier.
Very helpful. Thank you very much!
Very useful tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for!
Thanks for watching! Glad it helped you.
Thanks for the great tute. One thing that seems tricky for me is to have my back cover line up on the correct page. I always seem to end up with a blank page on the back cover rather than what I want.
+Bill Lang Just to clear that up - the back page is back page is blank and the image ends up on page 34 - even when I add empty pages on he end of the book. (It is a 36 pager with content only to page 33. The back cover should effectively be p 36
Hi! I'm on an iMac, running InDesign CC and am trying to get my booklet into pdf form so I can have it printed somewhere(Staples, etc. because I don't have a printer and my school printer isn't capable) else. I can't find Adobe Distiller online, so I looked around and saw that I can do this through the Preview App. When I create a pdf of it, they appear as single individual pages rather than side by side pages. Viewing the pdf in 'two page' made shows that the pages are still in the correct order that I would like for them to be printed, but will they print side by side(and front and back) in that order (on a single sheet of paper)? I'm concerned that viewing the document in 'two page' mode is merely for preference of viewing than purpose of printing. Your video was extremely helpful in figuring this out, thank you so much!
Xchovenei If you have a CC subscription, Distiller should be available to download from Adobe Manager. If your printer knows what they are doing, they can arrange your current PDF to print what you need for a back to back booklet, but that might not be the case for Staples. Essentially what Print to Booklet does is put your individual pages into one printable sheet in the order you want. For example, a 6x9 booklet actually is 12x9 flat and the actual pages are not in order in the way you design them. Take two regular sheets of paper, fold them like a booklet and number each page 1-8 and you'll see what I mean. These spreads are what you printer needs to print the booklet in the right order. If you don't have Distiller, you can design your booklet the old fashioned way which means you design in the booklet order on full spreads (like the paper mockup) versus on 1-8 individual pages in your document. I think a video on this alternate method would be ideal!
Great tutorial, very informative.
Thank you!
Truly helpful, Nikki, thanks a lot! Kudos!
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!!
Thanks for watching!
Perfect. Thank you. You and Distiller has saved me.
I don't suppose you could help with another issue I am having. My 'Print Adobe PDF' option from the print menu isn't working. Any idea why this could be?
Thank you for making this video! I only have one question and is about the printing on both pages, I don't see an option on the print settings for this, or is it automatic? thanks in advance!!
You're welcome! That is a setting specific to your printer. If your printer doesn't have double sided printing then you won't see this option. I was making in house booklets on a copy machine so that is where this came in handy most!
Hi I am struggling to have a booklet with no borders or white space at all sides, each time i take out a print booklet it comes out with white borders as the printer doesn't give a borderless print, Is there any way to get a borderless print booklet....Thanks Jo
Thank you so much! really made my life a lot easier!!
Super! Thanks for watching!
how do you get it to save as pdf? It's keep saying it can't save as pdf/open in preview
Thank you for this!
Nice tutorial
super useful! thank you!!
Thank you!
It would be grateful if you create and upload a video related to table of contents like how to create, tabs, chapter title, etc. Please try to make a video on this.
Thanks, super helpful.
how can i change printer - post script file to adobe pdf?
If I want print first page from left side?? Like Arabic books
WOW YOU ARE BLESSED
super helpful, thank you so much! :)
Thanks for watching!
What paper size did you put on the Indesign because my said warning the booklet doesn’t fit the current paper size. Click print settings to specify a larger paper size or to scale the booklet to fit.
thank you miss... it helps me ...
wow thank you so much! this helps a lot!
+OnTheStrangeSide Super! Thanks for watching!
Starts watcNice tutorialng video
Great Video!!! Ok, I managed to "print" my 88-page booklet using "Print Booklet" to a pdf file, but the pages in the pdf file are all cut off. I have re-done this 8 times now and I can't figure out why the paper size isn't matching up. It looks good in the "Print Booklet" preview, but then it's wrong in the pdf file. Any idea why? TIA.
this is my issue. how to fix this??
I wonder whether you can do a tutorial on creating a cd booklet cover? I am a complete novice in Adobe
Composite CMYK option is disabled in Output - Color option ? ,, How can i fix this ?
Thank you for the turorial very well explained. I have a question regarding setting up full bleed images as part of a booklet, it seems that when I send the booklet to print I get a white space between pages, how could I fix this? I would appreciate the feedback.
hi at the booklet type options, which one is the option where the book is "stiched with thread" not glue, not staples.. or it doesnt matter, just choose one option..?? THX
When i do this and open the file it chops half of my pages off, only showing the left pages cutting half of them off when i open it as a pdf
+Emma Bailey can anyone help me with this ?
+Emma Bailey I have a tutorial here talking about this. If you are using Distiller it's because your page size isn't set up correctly.
I have gain so much knowledge from this tutorial but I have a one confusion. You learnt that if you save pdf in booklet on pc then you can save (4X6 booklet default) and I will save pdf on mac I can change only (4X6 booklet default) into (postscript) file ? And other settings is remain same?
I have a question about printing a booklet I have made a book but the pages are from 1-100 in order but I want to print A3 because I want to use stitch. In indesign the A3.
Great Tutorial, Is there a way to arrange the pages correctly without adding in a blank page? If my pages included a bleed, would it make the process difficult? I want to start creating CD booklets with saddle stitch.
I created a new tutorial specifically addressing the postscript in Distiller issues some of you are experiencing. Stay tuned, it's releasing this week.
Design Like a Pro Did you post this new one yet??
+Design Like a Pro Very clear and informative, straight to the point - cream of the cake - nothing boring. Thanks
Scala Surgical Thank you! :-)
how do i set up thw printer to only print alternate pages so i can feed the page back in to print on the back of the page
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thank you very much!
How do you print to your own printer? I have a booklet that's 5.5 x 8.5 so it can print 2 up on a letter page and I can't get it to print to my own printer double sided. I have tried 3 printers and they only come out single sided. Any suggestions?
Thank you very much.
Thanks you so much :) love this
Zain Usmani Thanks for watching. Here's the follow up if you have any issues with the last steps: www.youtube.com/watch?v=clMuF
Thank you very much for this tutorial. But I still struggle with an issue "multiple page sizes". But I have no idea why. because I use just one size of page. And in this case I can't print a booklet. Would you know what to do with that? I've double checked my document setup and all sizes of pages. Thank you again!
I'm a GD student and am doing a zine project, but I'm working with the CC (most recent version). Any chance you could do an updated version?
Why i can't find the Adobe PDF option for printer in the Print Preset Window? [5:01] I only can choose ps format and it doesn't allow me to customize the paper size
It is nice and organized when you have elements within individual pages. Question is how do you deal with graphics that stretch the span of TWO pages? For example, a two page advert with a wide image. This will surely confuse InDesign's Print to Booklet feature.
Redbird Not at all. You would build your spread as you normally would and have the image fill where you want it to go. Don't split it up, actually size it to fill the desired space. InDesign creates the full spread just as it normally would when items are neatly on their own pages.
Actually this method lines up spreads better for publications over individual PDFs for each page (common for magazine press productions). Since the pages aren't technically separated from the sheet/spread, the fold line is irrelevant at not lining up the image on both sides of the spread. Of course this all comes down to how your printer operates though. I've worked in both situations but more commonly with individual pages as PDFs. The image spanning both spreads is never 100% perfectly lined up in that case. Thanks for watching!
8:14, best part of the tutorial!!! I'm going to create a few blank plages now...
THanks for the help :)
How would you print on a machine that doesn't duplex? Is there a way to tell it to one set and then rerun it printing the pages it missed the first time around?
Thank you very much..for this tutorial...
Thanks for watching!