Outputting a photo portfolio laid out as spreads to a PDF that can be emailed to clients

[El_Jeffe]

I'm a very basic user of InDesign. I essentially just use it to mock-up my printed portfolio - I'm a professional photographer. As I use double sided paper to print my portfolio, in Indesign I created a document that is made up of double page spreads. Sometimes there's one photograph on a page, sometime a photograph is a double page spread.

What I want to is simply output a PDF of the portfolio that maintains the format of a book, so the double page spreads are seen as a single "page", so as the user scrolls through the document, they see each spread in order.

The other thing I'm wondering is what options do I have to set how the document is viewed once I send it? I don't want to send potential clients a list of setting they need to plug into Reader etc just to see the PDF the way I intend.

Thanks!

[Derek Cross]

Have a look at Publish Online, it may suit your requirements.

[macpawel · Accepted solution]

When you Export your Document you can try use Spreads option instead of Pages in General settings of PDF Export window

Pawel

[Willi Adelberger]

You have to set up your document in the size of a SINGLE page, not in the size of a spread.

You have to set up the document with facing pages.

Then you can export as PDF with single pages or with spreads.