Allow us to create PDF (or postscript file) for thumbnails.
Currently InDesign will not let me create a PDF of thumbnails for a document. This would be valuable because I could then send a compact PDF file to a colleague for layout review, before sending the full PDF.
Alternatively, allow the creation of a PostScript file. Right now, if I try do do it in the printer menu, it disables the thumbnails options; if I try to use it via the Printer… button, it seems to work — even asking me to pick the filename — but does not create the PS file.
Peter Crownfield
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Frozen Creative LLC commented
I wish InDesign had an export PDF to thumbnails feature. I hate having to go to Print > save it as a postscript file > and drop it into Acrobat just to make a PDF.
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JBD
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I figured it out!
From InDesign, choose print, and then set up the dialogue box like the attached image for the printer and PPO: I chose printer as postscript file and THEN chose PPO as my actual printer (this wasn't the default, and the default had the "thumbnail" box greyed out which was why I never used this function).
It then allowed me to choose thumbnails! I set it up the specs I wanted (you can change orientation etc, too) and clicked save and chose the location. It then made a postscipt file which I could distill in Acrobat! It worked like a charm!
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Ralph
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yup, I have exactly the same request. Come on Adobe, really can't be that hard. Please can you make it happen?
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Julia Geissinger
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I see the original post is 2.5 years old. We are trying to do this for a client instead of printing out individual digital ads. My print dialog box says Not Supported when I try to create a PDF of the 3x3 thumbnails.
InDesign, why are you not responding to this?
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Kristin
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It is crazy that this feature is not available.
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Hydra
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This is an idea that should have been implemented long ago. We can print thumbnails, but cannot export a pdf with thumbnails? Why is the same thumbnail / multiple pages per sheet not supported for export?
