We highly recommend designing your booklet printing project in Adobe InDesign for this reason. During the PDF exporting process, there is an option to select “single facing pages” for your PDF. If you design your booklet in Adobe InDesign, then your document will default to reader spreads when you first start your project and you will be designing your project in what appear to be reader spreads. We do not recommend providing your PDF file in Reader Spreads They are in the correct order for someone to read the document, but if they were printed, collated, trimmed and assembled, the pages would appear out of order. Reader Spreads show consecutive pages in two-page spreads. We do not recommend providing your PDF file as Printer Spreads.
They are in order so that when the document is printed onto a large front and back sheet, collated, folded or trimmed, and assembled, all of the pages appear consecutively. Printer Spreads (on left below) do not appear in consecutive page order.
Instead, you get to simply export your PDF and leave the page arranging to the pros!
ACROBAT EXPORT PDF AS SPREADS HOW TO
We have our customers upload their files this way to save them the pain of figuring out how to arrange their pages into spreads for them to print correctly as a booklet (trust me, it can get pretty confusing). The cover, inside front cover, inside back cover, and back cover all count as four facing pages. For example, in the image above, there would be two single facing pages: one on the left and one on the right. Your PDF file should contain single facing pages when ordering from PrintingCenterUSA. That would mean that, if you refer to the page count image above, pages 2 and 7 would be blank. If you don’t want the backs of the covers to be printed on, then leave them blank AND include them in your PDF as blank pages in the correct consecutive order. It’s easy to overlook the inside front cover and the inside back cover during designing. This includes the front cover, inside front cover, all inside pages, inside back cover, and back cover. PrintingCenterUSA requires that your pdf is uploaded in single facing pages in consecutive order. It is important to understand this, so you don’t end up causing delays in the production of your project AND so that, when you open up your booklet for the first time, every page is exactly where you expected it to be. To do this, you can go to File –> Adobe PDF Presets –> Define as shown above, then choose “PDF/X-1a:2001” and click the “New” button.For multi-page booklet printing, there are quite a few things you need to know when it comes to page count and arranging pages for your print-ready PDF. You’ll also need to be proactive about transparency flattening, and may want to specify your own settings for transparency treatment. All of your colors (whether RGB or CMYK) will automatically be converted to CMYK, although any spot colors you’ve set will stay intact.
PDF/X-1a:2001 takes away compatibility with Acrobat 5 and downgrades it to Acrobat 4. Because these standards are geared toward producing more universal print-ready PDFs, printers will often take the easiest route and encourage clients to choose the PDF/X presets.
ACROBAT EXPORT PDF AS SPREADS ISO
Adobe developed this set of ISO standards for print workflows by addressing input from other industry professionals and vendors. They’re a safe bet if you want to be sure your printer will be able to open your file, while also minimizing any printing errors. PDF/X standards are the best choice when your printer hasn’t provided you with specs. Go to File –> Adobe PDF Presets, and you’ll see all of your options right there. You can quickly access InDesign’s PDF presets right from a flyout in the File menu. You’ll find the presets in similar places when creating PDFs from both Illustrator and Photoshop. If you’ve used other Adobe Creative Cloud applications to generate PDFs, you’ll likely notice something familiar about InDesign’s available preset options. Presets group multiple panels of choices into the most common combinations for various workflows, such as commercial printing, desktop printing, and digital publishing.īut can you really trust a preset to take care of the piece you worked so long and hard to create? At the same time, how in the world would you expect to remember all of the available print options every single time you need a PDF?ĭon’t worry about the learning curve InDesign’s PDF presets aren’t standalone. InDesign provides PDF presets so that you have fewer choices to make (and fewer details to actively remember).
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