Comments on: Two Tips in One: Vertical Spreads and Shared Layouts

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:54:14 +0000

@Matthew: That’s a great point, and it brings up an inherent issue with a blog like ours: This article was written in 2007 (see date at top), long before there was a “rotate spread” feature in InDesign.

By: Matthew Neighbour

Matthew Neighbour — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:22:42 +0000

Isn’t it much easier to treat the whole document as being rotated 90 degrees and use rotate spread view 90 degrees for all spreads?

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:36:24 +0000

Ann, please read this thread: http://indesignsecrets.com/need-to-build-a-calendar-in-indesign.php

By: Ann Ball

Ann Ball — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:06:06 +0000

Where did you get the shell for the calendar? I have lots of photos that I want to use for a NFP group I work with and I can’t find a 2009 calendar shell. Thanks.

By: Peter Spier

Peter Spier — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:20:28 +0000

Teus de Jong wrote a nice little script in 2005 that automatically exports any document to PDF, then creates a new document in rotated aspect and places the PDF, rotated, ready for for either printing as spreads for top binding or single sheet use, or for imposing into a saddle-stitch binding.

You’ll find it at http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.3bbd4bb6/0

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:25:19 +0000

This is really good, I’ve used the method for a University Architecture presentation that is 16 A1 sheets, laid out 8×2. Many of the images spread across more than one page and I need to consider printer margins. I’ve placed and cropped the pdf 16 times and it works brilliantly!

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:32:59 +0000

Taysh comments here that you can use the Links panel to keep track of which page of a multi-page PDF or ID file is about to be placed (into the 2nd "trim size" doc).

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:01:04 +0000

Worth noting is that the 5.0.1 update fixes the problem with stitched images in placed INDD files making that a very attractive option now.

By: Chris Coyeir

Chris Coyeir — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000

This is brilliant! When I first started reading I was like no, no, you can’t just combine the pages, because printers need to break up pages to create the weird impositions necessary for calendar printing. But then you really nailed it with combining the pages and then splitting them within a new InDesign document. Nice!

I like Bob’s solution too.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:25:00 +0000

I have a different method which I prefer.

The first part is the same. Create a single pages document at the full size of the vertical spread. Once the document is created export a PDF with bleeds and no marks.

Open the PDF in Acrobat and rotate all the pages 90 degrees and save.

Next create a new document with facing pages at the actual size required for printing but rotated 90 degrees so that if the full document unfolded will be 11×17 create the new document at facing letter size pages.

That will create 17×11 spreads. Place the PDF page by page. The first and last pages will of course need to be done with place and crop method.

Export a new PDF and voila.