Comments on: Print Blank Pages Messes Up Print Booklet

By: Kendall

Kendall — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:31:47 +0000

It’s amazing how much time can be consumed by not making this more obvious in the program. So many people have been pulling their hair out and a simple article like this makes perfect sense! THANK YOU!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:37:24 +0000

Thanks so much! While I had the option of “print blank pages” selected it still was adding those blasted 2 pages. So until I get to actually adding copy/design to those last few pages I just added a text box with the page number to those empty pages and voila! – it stopped adding those extra two pages!

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:27:57 +0000

Many thanks for this!
It was drivin’ me nuts, while I knew I had the right number of pages, it still kept adding the blank page.
The second option did the trick!

By: Jorge

Jorge — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:18:40 +0000

Thank you. Blank pages were causing trouble.

By: Xiaopu

Xiaopu — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:30:29 +0000

thanks so much! your 2nd point saved me a lot of grief!

By: Pengwyn

Pengwyn — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:14:47 +0000

Well, I found that in CS5 it really doesn’t matter if you put a white rectangle on a white page or set “Print blank spreads” in the booklet-print dialog or not… Or putting something on a layer that you would then set to not print. Indesign doesn’t respond to that and adds empty pages itself anyway.

The solution was to put something very small in a portion of the page that wouldn’t be visible in the printed doscument. For instance: I printed an A5 booklet on A4 paper and put a 0,001mm line right on the edge of the paper, outside of the printable area of my printer.
THEN and ONLY then, could I use the print-booklet function normally.
Appearnatly Indesign CS5 really does need to have something visible on the page, or it will disregard its existence.
Sillyness!

By: Maik S.

Maik S. — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:24:42 +0000

I got an version 5 of Acrobat. Kinda old. I can not print to Distiller and not as Postscript. They all hang up. I actually don’t need Acrobat when working with Indesign, so why but this expensive thing? I want InBooklet back! It worked like a charme.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:56:41 +0000

@J: Sounds like you need to check your Acrobat Distill job options.

By: J

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:17:33 +0000

I am using the Print Booklet feature and everything goes smooth and it saves a Post script file for me.

I distill it and open it as a pdf. But the quality is low. When I compare it to a regular high res pdf, the postscript derived pdf looks quite pixelated!

Has anyone else experienced this? Please help.

Thanks!

By: EK

EK — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:07:25 +0000

I have a 16 page booklet set to 2 up Saddle Stitch – but InDesign CS4 adds a blank page in front of the first page in the Print Booklet option and throws off all the other pages. How do I stop this?

Ekibby