PDF/InDesign Help
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- DavidNewton
I am designing an annual report in InDesign, its 32 pages, the fold is at the top of the page, and it has pages of varying sizes (so it is stepped when closed, top section pages are smaller than second section and so on and so forth).
I've set it up as seven different InDesign Documents, bound together in an InDesign book, and all is fine, problem is when I export a .pdf for the client to see, the pages are obviously next to each other when they should be above and below each other.
Is there any way of changing this so it is easier for the client to envisage how it will look when printed, ie, the bottom of the second page should sit on top of the top of the second page?
Cheers peeps!
- doesnotexist0
shouldn't you actually cut the pages for your client ?
- DavidNewton0
Edit: top of the second page should sit on top of the top of the third page, sorry about that!
- Knowledge_j0
uncheck 'facing pages' in the document setup box?
- van_rijn0
dont export as a spread
- DavidNewton0
yeah, I unchecked facing pages, but they still come in next to each other, just not joined together if you see what I mean?
- ninjasavant0
Make sure you're not keeping spreads together if thats causing the issue and you might have to go into acrobat and rearrange the pages manually
- yeah, thats what im talking about, but how do i do that?DavidNewton
- DavidNewton0
yeah Im not exporting as a spread either, its nothing obvious, im not even sure it can be done to be honest, but my client is the kind of person who needs to see things just as they will be, they just cant get their head round it otherwise!
- ninjasavant0
The most painful way to do it would be to export each page as a single PDF then start with page 1 and then add the one that should come next, and so on, until its all set up correctly. Not sure of a less crappy way to do it off the top of my head, I'd have to fire it up and play around with it but I gotta get in the shower and get to work .
- DavidNewton0
I just changed the view to 'continuous' and thats better, theyre all above each other now but it would be nice if i could have them joining together like that. (as a spread but above and below rather than side by side)
- you could take the pages and lay them out on 11x17 in ill then re-export as pdf and combine in acroninjasavant