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dolldivine
dolldivine
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Nov 3, 2026 9:10 PM UTC
Question

View pages side by side but with spacing

How can I view pages (in a book) in the side by side view, but give them a gap between them so that I can manage the bleed in the middle?  I’m using a lot of large images and in the side by side view, the bleeds go into the page beside it.

 

I remember this being an issue 25 years ago when I was working on the high school yearbook, and I still don’t see an answer when I search for it...

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    rob day
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    rob dayCommunity Expert
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    Nov 3, 2026 10:42 PM UTC

    so that I can manage the bleed in the middle?

     

    Hi ​@dolldivine , How is the book being bound? With most binding methods the signatures are folded and gathered so you wouldn’t need an inside bleed. With facing page documents it is assumed that the spreads will be folded:

     

     

    The exception would be something like wire-o where the inside edge is trimmed and visible

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      J E L
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      J E LCommunity Expert
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      Nov 3, 2026 9:38 PM UTC

      ​@dolldivine, Can you give us a screenshot of what you are seeing? You set up your bleed in the document setup and in the parent pages, you can set your margins. If you extend an image past the bleed, it’s going to appear there, including across the gap. Here is one example:

       

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