Change imposed pages to individual pages
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Hi,
Clients regularly supply us with files set up as printer pairs which don’t really work with our booklet maker.
Is there a quick way to change these into individual pages?As an example, client is looking for a 36pp A5 saddle stitched booklet. They supply print-ready PDF in printer pairs (18 A4).
I then have to bring the A4 pages into an A5 document, cropping each page as I go to create 36 A5 pages.Is there a quicker way, apart from getting the clients to supply individual pages?
Ta,
Graeme
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If they were saved as spreads in PDF form from ID I don’t believe they can be pulled apart in the PDF.
I tested it and tried what I though would help but no luck.
You could try the crop feature in Acrobat full app needed. I think you can crop odd/even pages, save odd as new file. Do one for even, bring them back as one PDF shift thumbnails around to get consecutive page numbers.
Ken
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Other than a custom script, there isn’t really a faster way to do this (although you could bring them into an A4 document, set Liquid Layout to “Scale” and then change the size of the document to A5). Once the PDF has been created, Acrobat sees the spreads as single pages, so there’s not a neat, automated way to break them apart.
One suggestion would be to inform clients that there is a file preparation charge of X per page for documents not supplied as single pages. This tends to get their attention more effectively than simply saying “Please submit PDFs as single-page, not spreads.”
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