GeirSol Posted August 30, 2022 Posted August 30, 2022 Hi! How do I export a pdf booklet print-ready? I have a 16pages A5 booklet, with bleed that I need to send to press for printing. (printer-marks included) They ask for print-ready files. I'm able to home-print my booklet, but I don't see that option on pdf export. How do I do this? Just exporting single pages, then they'll sort the booklet-thing? Quote
Dan C Posted August 30, 2022 Posted August 30, 2022 Hi @GeirSol, I would recommend using the Print dialog within Affinity to set the Layout and Bleed and Marks as required for your document, then set the 'Printer' to Microsoft Print to PDF. This will then 'print' a PDF file, with the above settings applied which can be sent to your printers to be processed. The other option would be to export your document to a PDF from the Export panel, enabling any bleed and printer marks as required and setting the Area to All Pages, so that each page in your document is a separate page in the PDF, then your printers can convert this to a Booklet print setup, as required. I hope this helps! Quote
GeirSol Posted August 31, 2022 Author Posted August 31, 2022 16 hours ago, Dan C said: Hi @GeirSol, The other option would be to export your document to a PDF from the Export panel, enabling any bleed and printer marks as required and setting the Area to All Pages, so that each page in your document is a separate page in the PDF, then your printers can convert this to a Booklet print setup, as required. I hope this helps! Thanks! Contacted my print-house and they wanted single-pages with bleed and crop marks. Tried print to pdf, but didn't get the crop-marks right. Dan C 1 Quote
walt.farrell Posted August 31, 2022 Posted August 31, 2022 2 hours ago, GeirSol said: and they wanted single-pages with bleed and crop marks. But do they really want them organized as the Booklet would be printed (in the Booklet order and orientation, already imposed), or do they just want you to Export to a PDF and set the Area to "All Pages" rather than "All Spreads"? Simply using "All Pages" is more common, I think. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
GeirSol Posted August 31, 2022 Author Posted August 31, 2022 3 hours ago, walt.farrell said: But do they really want them organized as the Booklet would be printed (in the Booklet order and orientation, already imposed), or do they just want you to Export to a PDF and set the Area to "All Pages" rather than "All Spreads"? Simply using "All Pages" is more common, I think. Yes, "All pages" is what I'll use Old Bruce 1 Quote
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