Hey there,

Try this:

• Check your desktop or a folder that Acrobat occasionally saves files.
• Try: Print Booklet, then Print Settings button, then select your Printer as "Adobe PDF...", then click the Printer button, then click the Print button. Acrobat will ask you where you want to save your PDF.
  
• You can also do a spotlight search (Mac) for the file name.

Eric

I'm having the same difficulty with a 12-page CD booklet. First few times: no file. Then I hopped thru your hoops, Eric, and did end up with a PDF --but Acrobat Pro couldn't open it and said it was "damaged." Ack!!

No problem creating normal PDFs from this file. The distiller log says, "Gosh, everything is fabulous!"

What I finally did was print to postscript, open the .eps in Acrobat and save it as a .pdf.

Sheesh.

No indeed! Publish it anywhere you like, and please whine to Adobe as well.

A caution: you must have selected a PDF profile with the resolution, printer's marks, etc. that you want to use. Otherwise it may default to whatever settings you used last. Eeeeuuuuw.

Also, I have no idea why, but a couple of days later, Print Booklet began producing actual PDFs which you could find. I'm almost as suspicious of inexplicable success as I am of undiagnosible failure.

Must say...I FINALLY (of course after whining) got what I believe to be a successfully imposed booklet to my desktop. I was able to produce a ps file before, but though the Preview showed the pages correctly in landscape format, once I hit print, it exported as Portrait causing pages to be  cut off left and right. Literally.

So, one last time before manually creating an imposed InDesign file,  I went to Print Booklet, chose Print Settings,  and, for whatever reason, the options for page layout and size were unavailable with the PostScript option, so I chose my Ricoh printer which caused the options to appear again, I set up the page at Landscape/Letter, re-chose PostScript as my printer  (which THEN retained the page layout options...huh??), hit ok, then checked Preview for kicks and giggles...hit print...the ps file showed up on my desktop and when I distilled the file, I didn't get an error report, the pages were in correct order and no pages were cut in half, etc.

The final test though is word from my printcenter that they printed the file without trouble.

I tell you, in writing the steps out, it's all very basic and simple in principle, but what a load of trial-and-error it took to get to this "derhar" end.

Hi Pete,

I am operating Mac OS  X 10.6.4, using InDesign CS4. I am just a user, not a developer, so I cannot pretend to even try to tell you exactly how your developers could easily recreate the third party InBooklet. I'm simply saying "Hey! This is what I'd like to see!" I understand CS4 is no longer in development. My standpoint is that of a loyal and long-term Adobe customer and user of InDesign; I found InBooklet a valuable tool and the current Print Booklet is frustrating. This "wishlist" hope is that the vast expertise exhibited by your developers can produce an option similar to InBooklet in the future. Again, I'm not a developer, so I hope I don't annoy you further, but someone mentioned in a thread that perhaps exporting an imposed pdf to one's desktop through the exporter panel would be simple, direct and functional, from a customer perspective. The circuitous, trial-and-error route I took to accomplish that task tells me it can be done so surely there's a way Adobe can wrap that up in a click-option? I don't know. Just telling you what I find frustrating and what I'd like to see change. Fortunately, my company purchases your products the moment they're out the shute, so I'm looking forward to the new things coming in CS5.

There is a make booklet script that will book up a file that you can print directly from or export to PDF. There are also quite a few inexpensive booklet making plug-ins.

I understand completely. Thanks for your input and I will keep trudging along, as they say! Hope you have a great day!