Editing spine PDF after export

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April 11, 2025
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Hi a huge thank you to everyone here who helped me get my first book successfully to the printer. The printer advised they will edit the spine width in the PDF if needed. This is making me nervous. I exported the covers & spine from InDesign as one PDF. While I'm a newbie, I'm thinking surely it would be better for me to make any adjustments needed in InDesign and resend a fresh PDF. Or is this PDF editing by printer an ok practice?

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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@ali_4619

How wide is spine in your document?

Is there any text / graphic on the spine?

If it's just a single color - no worries.

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Hi thanks Robert. The book spine is 3mm, no text or graphic on the spine, single colour - same colour as font & back covers. So should be fine then. Thanks again.

Robert at ID-Tasker

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Hi thanks Robert. The book spine is 3mm, no text or graphic on the spine, single colour - same colour as font & back covers. So should be fine then. Thanks again.

By @ali_4619

If there are no text or graphic elements there - guys printing it should be able to make it right - as long as they know what and how should be done...