Use Print Booklet, print a postscript file and then distill it.

Or you could check this link out.

http://bitbucket.org/codepoet/cups-pdf-for-mac-os-x/wiki/Home

Don't know if this would work as I have not tried it.

Doyle

Does the make booklet script from CS4 work on CS5? I use it for CS3 and CS4 and it works a charm. Update your ID file, then open your booklet file and it updates automatically. No having to create a new booklet everytime you update the original doc.

Good point. I forgot to mention that once you have your book spreads, export to PDF.

Having the same issue. When I use the Print Booklet option and go through the settings to print to Adobe PDF it seems to be saving, flattening the file, etc., but I don't know where it's saving to and I can't find the PDF anywhere after it saves. Any ideas? Is it really saving to a PDF or just going through the motions?
SGA

That's what I was afraid of. We bought CS5 during the changeover to Acrobat X and it came WITHOUT Acrobat Pro. We still haven't gotten our license and I might end up to have to buy a standalone version. Bummer. Tried firing up my old CS3 on the PC but of course the version of distiller was not recent enough to work with the 9.0 that Indesign CS5 prints to. Come one Adobe, with all of your incompatible upgrades you're starting to look like Apple.

Anecdotes ≠ opinions but they certainly seem to form the backbone of a great deal of opinion, so I don't know what you have to disagree with there. I have a need and the software doesn't fulfill that need. And it has been my experience on more than one occasion with printers and more recently (the past 3 years) with shops that specialize in brochure printing specifically. The definition of "any modern printer" is also curious, probably likewise as anecdotal as my stated need, and certainly subject to a great deal of assumptions about use case. From mom and pop shops, to printing comps at Kinkos for a client, to fulfillment with massive web presses, I would expect my software to cope with relative ease on a demand that has been there since the dawn of saddle stitch. The current job that I am setting up is on a massive printer that can offer more competitve prices for their jobs if the designers pre-impose the job. Not the way I normally work, but they certainly aren't the first to request it. But to argue that a professional level piece of publications software can't figure out basic imposition as part of the natural order of things is kind of silly. And to presume that my or anyone else's definition of need from their software is disagreeable somehow smacks of arrogance to me. Sure, maybe I won't get the kind of precision in crossovers and the like that I would from in-house software dialed in to the vagaries of a given press, but then not every job has a $100k budget and 6 color heidelbergs...

"Impositioning" is not as simple as you appear to think! There are scores of variants, and every printing company (in cooperation with its binders) has their own preference.

Check out something like Quite Imposing -- an Acrobat plugin. It allows professional level imposition of PDFs, from the lowly magazine binding for simple stapling up to sheets of 64 pages and more. InDesign's Print Booklet is sort of a running joke, compared to that. There is noth wrong with leaving impositioning to the printer, in my experienced opinion.

>I like, "scores of variants"... Is that an impositioning pun?

Not intended, but you may blaim a spurious intake of rum for that (as I'm on the down slope of my phase rite now).

Point is, imposition is a tricky thing. I think it's totally fair to say imposition is "best left to professionals". There are many pitfalls, and wo on the poor printer that gets an 'impositioned' document he has to rip apart and re-assemble into the proper order, all bleeds etc. intact. Very best advice I can offer is to ASK YOUR PRINTER before attempting anything.

This counts as practically identical to me:

So, yeah, that was all I personally needed, not the following screens... I'm sorry his post wasn't helpful to you, but I supposed "off topic" is in the eye of the beholder, because it was helpful for me in solving the specific question posed by your initial post, an issue that I shared. That was my point. And now its a matter of record so hopefully others will find it helpful too. Or any of the plugins or suggestions that ensued as the thread unfolded.

Personally, I found your reaction to his attempt at being helpful far far more impolite than any presumed hijacking (a label I don't agree with in this case, BTW).

Anyway, in case you have yet to give it a shot you should try out the script that Peter linked to above. I found that it worked perfectly for pre-imposing simple files before export. Also, if you have Acrobat (and thus presumably Distiller), you can open your .PS file that results from the above screens with either one of those and create a PDF that way too.