Is it possible to print as a booklet with bleeds and crop marks?

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OnscreenLearning7

It is inconvenient that Scribus doesn't have a way to format a pdf as a booklet similar to how Adobe does it. For the most part I can get around this however I am stumped as to how I can do this with bleeds and crop marks. To my knowledge, Scribus adds bleeds and crop marks to every page, which becomes a problem when transferring it to say, Adobe Acrobat, where they include the bleed and crop area into the booklet format. This leaves white space between pages which can make things feel disjointed, especially when I have elements crossing over between pages. Does anyone know if it is possible to get your work on Scribus onto a booklet formatted pdf with bleeds and crop marks?

Nermander

In the PDF generated by Scribus, the page is defined by the trimbox (which of course aligns with the crop marks).

https://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/page-boxes

At least in Acrobat, you can choose if it should crop the view to the trimbox or show the full media.

If you want to imposition into a booklet and then add crop marks I think you need to do this with the software you are using to imposition. The simple booklet printing of Acrobat cannot handle this.

Note that for this to work, you will need to impose the pages onto an oversized page.

Edit: Changed cropbox to trimbox, I confused them.