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- Hello and welcome to this video tutorial.
Gareth here from TastyTuts.com
In this video, I'm going discuss and demonstrate
Booklet printing in Adobe InDesign
and later I will be demonstrating
how to print a booklet as a PDF.
Now at this point, its important to mention
that I am using a Mac.
This may be a little different for PC users.
If you want to print a booklet PDF in InDesign,
you will need a PDF printer installed on your computer
and I will be showing you how to do that shortly
Okay so in the last episode, we exported the business card,
letterhead, and brochure documents we created earlier
in the course.
In this video, I will be using the brochure design
to demonstrate this example.
So lets quickly take a look at the brochure document
we will be working with to put this all into context.
So with the project folder open, navigate
to the my project folder, open the work docs folder,
and open your InDesign brochure file.
If you have been following along
you should have you brochure document here.
Now if you're new to this course and wish to follow along,
you can download the project folder and get access
to the files I have prepared earlier.
Link is in the description.
With the project folder open, navigate
to the finished examples folder, open the ID docs,
and open the brochure doc.
So here I am in Adobe InDesign
and this is a 12 page booklet brochure document,
we created earlier in this course.
Now as we scroll down, we can see how the document
was composed in InDesign.
If we come across and look over in the pages panel
we can see here that this is a classic booklet setup.
Okay so lets take a look at three examples
of PDFs exported from this document.
So with the project folder open, navigate
to the finished examples folder into the PDF export
into low preview and open brochure preview version 1.
So this is a PDF, which was exported
from the InDesign document in the previous episode
as a preview.
Now if you're new to this course and wish to take a look
at this PDF example, you can get access to this
in the project folder.
Download link is in the description.
So as I scroll down, we can see that the pages
are presented clearly, no bleed marks
and the spreads are placed together.
Now this is only good as a preview.
Here, we can get a good view of the design
and overall composition.
However, there is no way we could print this as a booklet
because the page layout for booklet printing is incorrect.
So back into the project folder, this time navigate
to the finished examples folder into the PDF export,
into high print, and open brochure print.
Now this is a PDF which was also exported
from the InDesign document in the previous episode
though this one is ready for print.
Here we can see all the marks and guides necessary
for the printer to align the pages, also we can see
that each page has been exported separately.
Now this will give the printer flexibility
to order the pages correctly, so when the pages
are printed together double-sided, folded,
and stapled down the middle, the booklet will open
and read perfectly in order.
Okay so back into the project folder
this time navigate to the finished examples folder
into the PDF export, into booklet
and open the brochure booklet.
I come up to view and rotate and select counter-clockwise.
So this is a PDF, which was also exported from the InDesign,
but this was exported as a booklet.
This time we can see that the pages are joined together.
Also, we have the marks and guides,
but this time around the outside of the spread
as opposed to around the individual pages
like on the previous example.
So as I scroll down, we can see that the order
of the pages look rather strange.
Well in fact, this is the correct setup.
If we now print this document out double-sided,
trim around the marks and guides, fold
and staple down the middle, the booklet will open
and read perfectly in order.
So those are three PDF examples exported
from the very same document,
but for very specific reasons, one to preview,
two for professional printing,
and three for booklet printing at home.
So now, I'm going to demonstrate how you can export
a booklet PDF from InDesign.
So back in InDesign, with the brochure document open,
lets begin.
Now before we get started, its important to mention,
currently, on Mac, when printing a booklet in InDesign
it does not export to PDF.
To do this, you will need a PDF printer installed.
This is a PDF printer driver that acts like a printer
on your computer.
Instead of printed onto paper you can print straight to PDF.
Now if you don't have a PDF printer installed
and wish to install one, simply navigate
to the project folder, into the project assets folder,
in the booklet printing folder
and find the instructions in there.
This file contains a link and instructions
how you can acquire your PDF printer just like I did.
And its free, so pretty cool.
Now I advise you to go ahead and install that
before following along, as you will need that.
So once you have the PDF printer installed lets begin.
So this document was originally setup
with the intention to be printed as a booklet,
folded and stapled.
If you seek to create a booklet,
then you should first setup a document just like this.
Also, when it comes to booklet printing,
you must be sure that your pages divide by four.
Remember, we will be printing pages double-sided,
so that's two pages per spread, which works out
to be one spread per side which then equals
to four pages per printed page double-sided.
If you fail to divide your document by four,
you will end up with blank pages or incorrect pagination
upon export.
So when you're ready to create a booklet PDF,
come up to file and scroll down and click print booklet.
Upon click, you will get the print booklet menu.
And we are looking at the setup options.
So starting from the top, in the print preset,
I'm just going to click this and set this to default.
Next, we have printer, now currently this is set
to post script, but we will have to change this shortly.
Next, I'm going to set the pages to all.
For booklet type, I'm going to chose two-up saddle stitch.
This is exactly what we want.
Down in margins, I'll make sure to keep the
automatically adjust to fit marks and bleeds box checked.
And I'll click print blank printer spreads.
Now, if we come over to the left, we can click preview.
So here we can see the pagination
that will be created upon print.
Here we can see we have the cover on the right, page one
and the back on the left page 12.
If we like, we can scroll through this and take a look.
So next I'll click the print settings button
at the bottom of the menu.
So here I'm going to set a few more options.
Now its important here, I change my printer
to the PDF printer.
On this occasion I'm going to change this to my PDF writer.
So I'll move down, I make sure copies is set to one.
I'll make sure print blank pages is checked.
Now currently, I do not have any blank pages
in my document, but if I did,
let's say I was creating an inside sleeve
for a book or something, then I would need this
to be checked.
So next, I will come over to the left and click setup,
so over on the right I will set the orientation
to landscape and down in options, I'll click scale to fit.
Over on the left, I'll click marks and bleeds
and I'll select all printer marks.
Once happy, I'll click okay.
Now in preview, I can see how my document
is going to export.
Once happy, I'll click print.
Upon click, InDesign will print
and because we printed the booklet with the PDF printer,
we will soon get a PDF.
So once this is done, locate your printed PDF document
on your computer.
Here is my new booklet PDF, which I have opened
in Acrobat Reader, pretty easy right?
And I'll just come up to view, rotate
and click counter-clockwise.
So on this occasion, I chose to include the marks
and bleeds.
Now because I have this as a PDF, I can now print this
using my regular printer, perhaps print this double-sided
on a laser-jet.
And if I cut along the guides, staple, and fold,
I will get the page layout for my booklet.
Easy.
So that's how you can print a booklet in Adobe InDesign
as a PDF.
A convenient feature in InDesign, which can allow you
to print your booklet at home.
So currently, I'm using Adobe InDesign CC 2014.
Now if I save this file and send it
to someone who uses InDesign, say CS5 or earlier
then they will not be able to open the document.
The file will not be compatible.
To allow someone to open my document
using a different version of InDesign,
I will need to export as an IDML file.
In the next video, I'm going to discuss
backwards compatibility in Adobe InDesign
and demonstrate how we can create IDML files.
See you in the next video.
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