InDesign won't impose pages!?!

[Sandra_Niemann@adobeforums.com]

I am considering switching to ID but have run into what I think is a major roadblock. We use Pagemaker 7.0 and produce books with a large number of pages. PM will automatically produce printer's spreads easily but my understanding is that ID will not. What is the story?
Thanks in advance.

[Jerry_Farnsworth@adobeforums.com]

[email]Sandra_Niemann@adobeforums.com[/email] wrote in
news:3bb3c172.-1@webx.la2eafNXanI:

> I am considering switching to ID but have run into what I think is a
> major roadblock. We use Pagemaker 7.0 and produce books with a large
> number of pages. PM will automatically produce printer's spreads
> easily

Please delete "easily" and never consider using "consistently" or
"quickly" in athat sentence.

> but my understanding is that ID will not. What is the story?

Someone lied to you. IndyCS ships with a limited version of something
that's a lot closer to a real imposition plugin.

> Thanks in advance.

You bet.

[Robert_Levine@adobeforums.com]

PM's build booklet is junk for the most part. Just try to impose a book
with graphics that span two pages.

ID CS PM Edition ships with a limited edition version of InBooklet.
There are also scripts available that are far superior to PM's build
booklet that can be downloaded from the Adobe Studio Exchange.

Bob

[Jens Schulze]

> What is the story?

The story is that beside the shipped plugin Jerry and Robert mentioned -
which works for the basic semi-professional jobs - InDesign is targeted for
the professional user that creates the job and doesn't think of the
imposition because that is the work of the printing company - only they will
really know how they do the imposition for their special printing machine,
which marks they need and how many times they place one page on one spread.
There are a lot of imposition programs out there, in every price range, so
why should Adobe implement an own first class imposition engine?
Maybe you should ask your printing partner if they can handle multi-page PDF
files, and let them handle the imposition. As a book producer with the
machines for such a printing task it is very likely they field a
professional imposition software to do their job.

Jens

[Lantz_Newberry@adobeforums.com]

I just ran into this very issue. I'm trying to find this InBooklet plug-in. I am the designer AND often the printer. We have a Splash RIP and Xerox color copier which I use OFTEN for short run booklets. I've used PM's build booklet script for years to do these and was able to use it in ID2 in it's script folder just fine. I just upgraded to IDCS and dropped the script in it's script folder but it does not appear in the scripts window. Why has this been disabled? Did this InBooklet plug-in/script replace the old classic script? Where do I download the new script? I no longer use PM.

I'm running
10.3.3
IDCS 3.0.1
ID2.0.2
PM 6.5.2

[Robert_Levine@adobeforums.com]

Many older scripts don't work in ID CS. Either visit the [url]www.alap.com[/url]
for a version of InBooklet or the Adobe Studio Exchange for a script.

Bob

[Bryce_Steiner@adobeforums.com]

If you want an excellent, low price(compared to others) imposition tool, get Quite Imposing plus. It is one of the best out there. I also hate it when people bring jobs in here to print and they try to do the imposing. I have to break it down to the size and start over.

Bryce

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

This JavaScript is what I use for Build Booklet.

Warning. Work on a copy of your document. Use the created booklet for printing purposes only. Do not save the document back over your original.

To install the script, copy and paste it to a text editor. Save it as plain text inside the Scripts folder in your Presets folder in your InDesign CS application folder. The name of the file must have the extension .js -- I call the file BuildBooklet.js

As long as your document has a multiple of 4 pages, the script will work. It creates printer-spreads by shuffling the pages (unlike PageMaker's build booklet which shuffled the contents of the pages). To print your booklet or export it to PDF, check the Spreads option in the print/export dialogs.

myPages = app.documents[0].pages;

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

if (myPages.length % 4 != 0) {
alert("Document length isn't a multiple of four.");
exit();
}

for (i=0; myPages.length>i; i++) {
origSection = myPages[i].appliedSection;
origNumbering = origSection.pageNumberStyle;
origSection.pageNumberStyle = PageNumberStyle.arabic;
pageName = myPages[i].name;
sectName = origSection.name;
if (sectName != "") {
pageName = pageName.split(sectName)[1];
}
pageNo = Number(pageName);
newSection = app.documents[0].sections.add(undefined, undefined, {pageStart:app.documents[0].pages[i], continueNumbering:false, pageNumberStart:pageNo, pageNumberStyle:origNumbering});
origSection.pageNumberStyle = origNumbering;
}
app.documents[0].documentPreferences.allowPageShuffle = true;

for (i=0; (myPages.length/2)>i; i++){
if (i % 2 == 0) {
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);
}
}

[John_Brush@adobeforums.com]

For quick 2-up imposition, Mr. Saunders script is great. Thanks for the post.

[Lantz_Newberry@adobeforums.com]

Thank you Robert I just downloaded InBooklet 3.0 from ALAP and tried the 15 day demo. Worked perfectly and is ordered.

[Steve_Dorsey@adobeforums.com]

How do I use this script? I have Adobe InDesign CS for Mac OS 10.3.

[Stu_Bloom@adobeforums.com]

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