Custom print page sizes possible?

[Brad Walrod]

I could really use the capability of creating a custom page size that would show up in the Print dialog. One of the files in a book I'm working on refuses to Export to PDF properly but looks fine when printed/saved as Adobe PDF.

The problem is that, when going through the Print dialog, the crop-marked pages appear floating in a letter-size area, whereas the exported pages hug the crop marks. When I try to create a new Print Preset I can see the word Custom under Page Size, but it's grayed out.

I'm out of ideas (and steam). Any thoughts?

Brad

[Michael]

On Feb 7, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Brad Walrod wrote:

> I could really use the capability of creating a custom page size that would show up in the Print dialog. One of the files in a book I'm working on refuses to Export to PDF properly but looks fine when printed/saved as Adobe PDF.

What happens when it refuses to export to PDF?

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> The problem is that, when going through the Print dialog, the crop-marked pages appear floating in a letter-size area, whereas the exported pages hug the crop marks. When I try to create a new Print Preset I can see the word Custom under Page Size, but it's grayed out.

What you see in the Print dialog box is the way the publication's page will print on the sheet of paper in the printer.

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[Bret Perry]

Don't know if this is what you want to do, but to use a custom page size I a Print Preset, You have to create your custom page size first, before attempting to create a print preset that uses it.

Go to Page Setup (in Print Dialog), then Manage custom sizes, then create you custom size, and then using a page of that size, you can then create the print preset...

Brad

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[Brad Walrod]

The weird thing is that none of my already existing custom sizes show up in the drop down Page Size menu. But I did manage to create and choose the custom size in Page Setup within the Print Preset dialog. (I had to define the size as 7.58 x 10.62 inches to get the same size page as Export to PDF gives.)

Thanks for helping me get this file out.

Brad

[Brad Walrod]

It doesn't refuse to export, it refuses to export properly. A handful of pages (incorrectly) have severely skewed type and background shades of gray. It's definitely a case of garbage in, garbage out. But as you know, we sometimes get garbage in.

(Looking at the Properties of the PDF pages I've placed in this ID file I see that it was exported as PS from XPress 7.31 and then presumably Distilled.)

I had another file that would keep reporting "Export of PDF Failed" (as I recall) after looking like the export had completed. Finally got that one to finish by turning off Optimize for Fast Web View.

Brad

[Nini Tjäder]

This is an old tip for it <http://www.ninisworld.com/thecorner/tutorials/idcspagesizes.html>
Haven't tested it in current versions of InDesign. Test it and report back if it works in current versions.... ;)

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[Nini Tjäder]

After a bit more checking I see that IDCS5 isn't organized like that. Have no idea where it keeps the custom sizes. It doesn't accept the old definitions for page sizes if you put them into the Presets folder form an older version of ID either but you can create and save custom sizes.

On 8 feb 2011, at 10.31, Nini Tjäder wrote:

> This is an old tip for it <http://www.ninisworld.com/thecorner/tutorials/idcspagesizes.html>
> Haven't tested it in current versions of InDesign. Test it and report back if it works in current versions.... ;)

[Harbs]

It might be an issue of the printer driver. If the selected printer doesn't support custom sizes, I think InDesign doesn't give you the option...

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[Brad Walrod]

Thanks for that. I had found, opened, and read the New Doc Sizes.txt file last night. But it certainly appears to have more to do with, well, new doc sizes, rather than custom paper sizes in the Print dialog. (I'm still on CS4, btw.)

Brad

[Brad Walrod]

I only have the one printer driver installed, and I use custom sizes all the time (for different-shaped envelopes, mostly). But Bret got me on the right track . . .

Brad

On Feb 8, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Harbs wrote:

> It might be an issue of the printer driver. If the selected printer doesn't support custom sizes, I think InDesign doesn't give you the option...
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