Adobe InDesign CS & InBooklet

[EJFan]

ok... i'm going to keep this brief because i imagine that if anyone can help they'll know what i'm talking about with fairly little information. if you need to know more, please feel free to ask.

i have a file i've created with InDesign... i created it as a BOOK rather than as a DOCUMENT. i want to impose the pages of the book for print using InBooklet SE but can't seem to find a way to do so. any ideas?

when working with documents, InBooklet works like a charm but doesn't seem to function with the book files and i can't find any way to impose pages otherwise.

please help. much thanks!

 

[TBKahuna123]

ok... i'm going to keep this brief because i imagine that if anyone can help they'll know what i'm talking about with fairly little information. if you need to know more, please feel free to ask.

i have a file i've created with InDesign... i created it as a BOOK rather than as a DOCUMENT. i want to impose the pages of the book for print using InBooklet SE but can't seem to find a way to do so. any ideas?

when working with documents, InBooklet works like a charm but doesn't seem to function with the book files and i can't find any way to impose pages otherwise.

please help. much thanks!

Wow, I've never used InBooklet and we're just switching from Quark to InDesign. Just using a logical guess here, but what about creating a PDF of the InDesign file, then importing that into InBooklet?

 

[CopyCarver]

An "A" for Logical Guess

Wow, I've never used InBooklet and we're just switching from Quark to InDesign. Just using a logical guess here, but what about creating a PDF of the InDesign file, then importing that into InBooklet?

Been there and done that very thing many times--as has the graphic arts department of the academic publisher I work for. Importing a PDF into In Booklet can be a tad slow--or not--depending upon the size of the file and the speed of your processor but it works 99% of the time.

 

[EJFan]

thanks for the suggestion guys but as far as i can tell, it won't work with the InBooklet SE that comes packaged with the creative suite's version of InDesign.

with this version, it's a plugin for InDesign as opposed to a freestanding utility. so, unless there's some function that i haven't found (which very well may be the case) i have to use InBooklet in the confines of InDesign.

for the ebooks i've done in the past, i take the InDesign document, use InBooklet to impose pages and print to a .pdf. it doesn't seem as thought that's an option for the InDesign BOOKS... but i could be missing something.

TBK... it's been a long while since i've used quark so i'm not familiar with the newer versions. but based on what i was used to, i think you'll find InDesign to be the better product. good luck with it and let me know what you think.

 

[TBKahuna123]

TBK... it's been a long while since i've used quark so i'm not familiar with the newer versions. but based on what i was used to, i think you'll find InDesign to be the better product. good luck with it and let me know what you think.

OH of that I have no doubt. I hate Quark. Of course, I'm the Web guy, so I don't have to mess with it much, thank God.

 

[EJFan]

OH of that I have no doubt. I hate Quark. Of course, I'm the Web guy, so I don't have to mess with it much, thank God.

what do you use for your web design? if you're converting to InDesign, are you going to use GoLive as well? i haven't tinkered with it a lot but from what i'm told, GoLive combines all the best facets of dreamweaver and coldfusion. i'm not very well versed in either so i can't really comment... but what are your thoughts?