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My customer wants a PDF to view and print as individual pages as well as have the option to view and print as two-page reader spreads. The individual pages are simple but I can't seem to find a way to do spreads.
If it can be done, does anyone know how to do this?
If you did, could you import the illustrator eps's into 2 page spreads? Then export the file as PDF to suit.
Do you want to be able to print both ways from the same PDF? If so I am not sure how you'd go about that.
But if you want to create 2 separate documents you could use Quark. Lay the pages out as a double page spread and a single page spread then export to PDF, or export each page as eps and complile the pages in acrobat (a bit time consuming but will give you a smaller file). Then you have the same document in two print versions.
[edited by: limbo at 3:54 pm (utc) on Dec. 15, 2004]
The print output is obvious for Single Pages, but when printing Facing Pages it starts with the Cover and Inside Front Cover so that all the spreads print mismatched.
I must be doing something wrong. I'm trying to get the cover to print as a single page, then do facing pages so it collates, as a book should when printed.
1 question, if you do it this way will your users/client not have the same problems?
Turns out I also have a local document open in Reader. Guess what? The current view in the standalone Reader appears to control the view in which documents are opened in the browser. When I change the view in my local Reader and refresh the browser, then that document's view changes.
And it also looks like the last view used before closing the local Reader is how new documents opened in the browser appear.
Play around with it a bit and see if you get the same behaviour.
I gotta believe this is really simple. I've got a 20 page book and I just want it to print in proper pagination in two page spreads. This is what PDF's are supposed to do, provide output that matches the original doc.
Man this can't be that hard...
Usually, what I do is create a PDF of single pages (as you have already) for casual distribution online or via the office intranet. If I need to have a booklet printed for the same document (like a catalog, for example), I create a separate PDF with all pages paginated and arranged two-per-page for sending to the print shop.
