Printing documents with multiple page sizes, Specifying pages to print, Specify paper size and page orientation – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Print Blank Pages
Print Visible Guides and Baseline Grids
Prints all pages in the specified page range, even if no text or objects appear on a page. This option is unavailable when you
are printing separations. If you are using Print Booklet for composite printing, use the Print Blank Printer Spreads option to print blank spreads
added to fill out composite signatures.
Prints visible guides and grids in the same color as shown in the document. You can control which
guides and grids are visible in the View menu. This option is unavailable when you are printing separations.
Printing documents with multiple page sizes
You may want to print pages that have different sizes separately. An option in the Print dialog box makes it easy to specify a range that selects all
the pages of the same size in the document.
Before you submit a document with multiple page sizes for printing, ask the print provider about special requirements. If you have difficulties
printing a document with multiple page sizes, consider dividing it into separate documents.
1. Choose File > Print.
2. In the General panel, select or deselect Spreads to determine whether pages or spreads are printed.
If a spread includes pages of different sizes, the largest width and height on the spread determines the spread size.
3. To print only pages of the same size, use the options above the Range field to select one of the pages or spreads, and then click the pages
icon
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The Range field displays all the pages or spreads of that size.
4. After printing a range of one page size, repeat the steps to print other page sizes.
Specifying pages to print
You can specify a page range using either absolute numbering (the page’s position in the current document) or page/section numbering (the
section and page numbers assigned to the page). By default, dialog boxes in InDesign honor the format specified for Page Numbering in the
Preferences dialog box.
When Absolute Numbering is selected, numbers you specify for pages or page ranges correspond to the absolute position of pages in your
document. For example, to print the third page in the document, you would enter “3” for Range in the Print dialog box.
When Section Numbering is selected in the Preferences dialog box, you can enter pages and page ranges exactly as they appear in your
layout or using absolute numbering. For example, if the page labeled SecA:5 is the fifteenth page in your document, you could print it by
entering “SecA:5” in the Print dialog box or by entering “+15”. The “+” sign indicates that you want to override the normal section and page
numbering to use absolute page numbering.
If you are unsure which format to use when entering page numbers in the Print dialog box, imitate the format used in the page box at the
bottom of the document window.
Specify paper size and page orientation
It’s important to distinguish between page size (as defined in the Document Setup dialog box for your document) and paper size (the sheet of
paper, piece of film, or area of the printing plate you’ll print on). Your page size might be US Letter (8.5-by-11 inches), but you might need to print
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