: How to print to PDF on Mac OS X from Adobe InDesign CS6? I'm trying to print a booklet to a PDF file instead of a printer in Adobe InDesign CS6. Adobe Acrobat X Pro is supposed to allow

@Cugini998

I always find the Device Independent PPD rubbish. It doesn't allow you to define the page size, so unless your booklet spreads are less than A4 they end up cropped after you distill them. And don't get me started on not being able to add crop marks and bleed.

This link (http://forums.adobe.com/message/4741115) explains how to add Acrobat 9 PPD to your PPD options. This allows you to define page sizes including custom page sizes, for when you want to make an A1 size kids book :)

Hopefully Adobe realises that the print industry still needs to use PPD and starts making them again for Acrobat 11.

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@Bethany839

You can use Markzware's PDF2DTP for InDesign to convert your PDF into InDesign, make your changes and then ready it for print.
markzware.com/products/pdf2dtp

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@Sims5801359

If you have deep pockets (e.g. .95 USD) there ARE now InDesign plug-ins that do everything that Print Booklet does and more -- except that they create a new InDesign document or PDF file instead of being a print system feature.

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@Marchetta832

Unless I misunderstood the question completely:

The commom method to do this is exporting to PDF dialogue (Cmd+E), which also gives you more control over PDF standard, compatibility, compression and other PDF settings as well as crop and trim.

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@Murray976

Acrobat X does not install a print driver on the Mac to the best of my knowledge. Acrobat Stopped installing the PDF printer driver at version 9 on the Mac due to how Apple built in the PDF saving.

I believe your first link is referring to a Windows system since the Mac OS has PDF saving built into the OS print dialogs (as shown in your second link).

All previous PDF print drivers from Acrobat will fail with CS5 or newer.

Here is how to use the Print Booklet.. menu item in conjunction with PDF output.....

After Selecting "Print Booklet..."
Click the "Print Settings" button and...
Print to a Postscript file....


You will get a Save dialog when you finally click "Print". This will save a .ps file to whatever location you want. Then drag that .ps file to the Acrobat Distiller icon inside the Adobe Acrobat Pro X application folder.



Acrobat Distiller will convert the (bookleted) postscript file (.ps) into a viewable PDF.

The Save as PDF option within Indesign won't paginate the way the Print Booklet.. command does. So if you need Print Booklet, this method is the best way to use that in conjunction with PDF output.

(In reality, this is how all PDF files were created before Adobe built PDF saving and exporting into the other applications.)

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