How to Impose a Saddle Stitch Booklet via Print Booklet in InDesign

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Here is video on how to impose/print a booklet via Adobe InDesign via the the Print Booklet feature. I also show how to install the Adobe PDF .ppd file for printing.
****Update****
Adobe has removed the link to the .ppd file on the Adobe website. Instead I'm adding it to my Google Drive as a link you can access and download below.
Here is the link to the .ppd file:
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Link to my Patreon page: patreon.com/MikethePrintMan

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@miketheprintman 2 ай бұрын

***Update. Adobe has removed the link to download the .ppd file I mention in this video. Instead, please find the link to it in the video description to download it from my Google Drive.

7 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!!!! I was truly going nuts trying to figure this one out. Pissed at Adobe for this!

@miketheprintman 7 ай бұрын

No problem. Glad I could help.

@envadd.6556 8 ай бұрын

Thank you, great video.

@miketheprintman 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.

@razanahmed6541 5 ай бұрын

YOURE LITERALLY A LIFE SAVER!! I've been struggling to print for a month now and your video literally saved me.. THANK YOUUU

@miketheprintman 5 ай бұрын

Glad it helped.

@AD-gi2sw 8 ай бұрын

Great Video This will help me Thank you

@miketheprintman 8 ай бұрын

You got it. Let me know if you need help with anything else.

@AD-gi2sw 8 ай бұрын

@@miketheprintman Thank there's lot that I need help with, Do you use PDF Snake and if you do could you make a video on it

@miketheprintman 8 ай бұрын

@@AD-gi2sw I don't personally use it because I have Creative Cloud, but I have used it before in a pinch. That might be a good video idea. I'll take a look at doing something for it. Thanks for the idea.

@saghimalekanian7275 Ай бұрын

I downloaded the PPD file and followed all these steps and my InDesign is still not showing a pdf option when I try to print booklet. I'm going crazy not being able to figure this out. Please help.

@miketheprintman Ай бұрын

You got the PPD in the correct folder? Also make sure it is in all versions of InDesign you have installed. With the way they update, you have to make sure it’s in all the versions of ID.

@saghimalekanian7275 29 күн бұрын

@@miketheprintman Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I've double checked those a few times and it still doesn't work. For reference I'm using the latest InDesign 2024 software and I've downloaded the PPD file and copied it into Applications>Indesign>Presets>PPDs folder>[the file]. Am I missing something or doing something wrong?

@miketheprintman 29 күн бұрын

@@saghimalekanian7275 You have your folder named as "PPDs" only right? Not "PPDs folder". If it isn't named that exact name it won't work. Let me know.

@saghimalekanian7275 29 күн бұрын

@@miketheprintman Yes, it's named PPDs - exactly like you were showing on the video.

@miketheprintman 29 күн бұрын

@@saghimalekanian7275 Last thing I can think of is when you go to print, you're selecting Postcript File under printer right? Once you make that selection the Adobe PDF 9.0 PPD should show up. If you don't have it selected as a Postcript file it will probably point to a local printer. Let me know. Sorry, had to diagnose the problem without seeing your setup.

@purenorthcreative8798 11 күн бұрын

You Rock, I have been struggling to get this right. Thank you.

@miketheprintman 11 күн бұрын

Glad it helped.

@davidkoeth 12 күн бұрын

Thanks for this. Really appreciate.

@miketheprintman 12 күн бұрын

My pleasure!

@adblackshark 3 ай бұрын

You're the best person in the world, even an angel. May everything go well for you, and may you be happy throughout your life

@miketheprintman 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, thank you.

@f.latinakis6978 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! This is the only solution I found for this pretty mayor problem. Life saver!!!

@miketheprintman 4 ай бұрын

No problem. Glad it helped.

@martinlowery6244 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, this video is very helpful. I have created a booklet in indesign itself, therefore i can skip the first step and go straight to 'print booklet'. I am using the latest version of Indesign on windows and find that 'print booklet' lets me create a PDF directly (so i don't need to use distiller either). Everything appears to work great apart from I am a little concerned by the finished artwork file size! There are many bitmap files in my brochure (they are 300dpi and not scaled up) and if i use the 'Export' dialog and remove any bitmap compression, i get a file that isn't saddle-stitch and is reassuringly large file or 116MB. However when i use the 'Print booklet' method, it doesn't give me any bitmap compression options to choose from, and the file it generates is only 4MB. This is worryingly small, how can i be certain that the bitmaps are going to be of high enough quality for the printer?

@miketheprintman 6 ай бұрын

In Acrobat open up preflight. There is a check that will show any images below 300dpi. That way you know for sure.

@Mslizzybluts 8 ай бұрын

Great video. My book looks great, all the pages correct but all the back pages are printing up side down! Can you help?

@miketheprintman 8 ай бұрын

Can you simply rotate the pages in Acrobat after export? You can tell it to rotate only even or odd pages at a time.

@jamskof 4 ай бұрын

hi, thanks for this! so if i have text or graphics overlapping the spreads, does that cause any problemns?

@miketheprintman 4 ай бұрын

Shouldn’t be a problem. The print booklet feature will keep any information that spreads across intact. I will say to avoid doing so unless it’s the center spread because it’s hard to line up text during the bindery process if they are on two different sheets.

@emilysandstrom8936 Ай бұрын

OMG THANK YOU!!! Stupid Adobe.

@miketheprintman Ай бұрын

No problem. Happy to help. Thanks for watching.

@emanabdallah4067 Ай бұрын

you saved my sanity! thank you heaps for this xox

@miketheprintman Ай бұрын

No problem. Thanks for watching.

@mts992 8 ай бұрын

Dude, I can't thank you enough! This video helped me a lot! I have a question: If I want to impose a very large book that I need to stitch it up in small booklets to then join them in a book, should I do this but instead of selection "all pages" select just the pages for that small booklet and then repeat this process for the remaining booklets that compose the large book? I can't think of a better way, but if you have other suggestion I would appreciate it! Thank you again!

@miketheprintman 8 ай бұрын

I’m a little confused. So you want to break the book into sections? The print booklet feature is going to treat the entire document as one book. I would split my InDesign document into smaller booklets. Then combined, so that way the pages stay in order. However I would recommend always printing one copy first to stitch and test to make sure all pagination is correct.

@mts992 8 ай бұрын

@@miketheprintman exactly. I want to do a binding book technique that requires splitting the book into small booklets. Thank you so much again for the advice