Comments on: Transforming Pages in CS5

By: erin

erin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:31:51 +0000

but when you do create a page at a different size in a spread, can you base align or top align that page with the one next to it? seems it defaults to center.

By: mchak

mchak — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:42:26 +0000

What else can we do with the Pages tool? I was trying to find a way to make a page with a non-rectangular shape – actually what I wanted was a page with a tab sticking out from the right edge. A real-world use. But I can’t find a way to edit the shape of the page, just it’s size.

Anybody know a way to make an irregularly-shaped page? Or even a regular polygon, such as a triangle or a hexagon?

By: Mike Rankin

Mike Rankin — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:01:45 +0000

Just to pile on David’s comment: our meeting with the engineer was mind-blowing. This could be a tremendously cool feature, that we’re just beginning to grasp.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:40:58 +0000

This thread turned into a great discussion at the Print and ePublishing Conference (with the actual programmer from Adobe who wrote the code for spread and such), which turned into an amazing free plug-in that I demoed there… and which I’ll post about here later this week. Wow.

By: Jason Plein

Jason Plein — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:33:58 +0000

@Jochen F. Uebel, @collywolly:

If you export to PDF with Spreads enabled, the page is still rotated; if you export to PDF with Spread disabled, the page is not rotated.

When you export a Print PDF, Spreads is disabled by default (you can turn it on on the General pane of the PDF export dialog); Interactive PDF exports to PDF with Spreads enabled. That’s why you see a difference between Interactive and Print PDF.

This is similar to what you see if you move pages around or shift them vertically using the Pages tool: if you export with Spreads enabled, you get your whole spread, in all its pages-moved-around glory; if you export single pages, you get a representation of each page, with no indication that it was moved or shifted around on the screen.

By: Jochen F. Uebel

Jochen F. Uebel — Sun, 09 May 2010 07:26:04 +0000

BTW:
A discussion regarding sheared/skewed and rotated pages is running also on Adobe Forum: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2794345#2794345 (since May 7, 05:38 AM).

By: Jochen F. Uebel

Jochen F. Uebel — Sun, 09 May 2010 07:02:02 +0000

@collywolly:
Cropmarks need an export via »PDF (Print)«.

The result:
A sheared PAGE is sheared back to rectangular shape; not sheared OBJECTS of such a page get sheared (!).

A rotated PAGE is rotated back to »normal« mode. OBJECTS of such a page are also rotated back. Crop marks are fine.

Export via the new export option »PDF (Interactive)« do not change shearing and rotating (neither of pages nor of objects) but do not produce any crop marks.

By: Fred Goldman

Fred Goldman — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:20:23 +0000

Michael actually brought up an interesting point. Would this make it possible to scale all the pages of a document and then export to PDF without having to use Distiller? This is an oft-requested feature.

By: James

James — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:04:59 +0000

I hope no more than 5 minutes was spent adding this feature to ID CS5…

By: Martin Braun

Martin Braun — Sat, 08 May 2010 11:45:51 +0000

Weird feature! Great find!