How to change margin and gutter in Acrobat?

[lrp37300752]

Does Acrobat DC have a facility for setting gutter margins when printing to pdf for (for e.g.) and Amazon KDP paperback book? I can see software called How to set gutter or margin while N-up PDF pages? [A-PDF.com] but surely there is something within Acrobat? (Gutter margins, BTW means LH and RH pages will have larger inside margins than on the other three edges.)

[Luke Jennings]

Are you trying to create cover & spine spread pages? I can't think of a reason to add additional bleed in the spine, unless you are printing a wiro-bound book, in which case you would create and send single pages, with bleed on all 4 sides. Can you give some additional details about what you are trying to do? You might be able to do this using Acrobat print to booklet, but the single pages would need to be set-up with the correct bleed to begin with, for it to work.

Booklet and bleed

[lrp37300752]

Hi Luke. Thanks for your reply. These are the parameters required by

Amazon/KDP for their POD books. See: eBook Manuscript Formatting Guide | Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing 

Gutter margins are always greater than

outside margins for perfect bound or stitched books. Does this help?

Many thanks, Lindsay Porter

[Abambo]

Normally you set those parameters in your application.

[lrp37300752]

There's a "normally" now? I wish my life was that simple!

By "application" I assume you mean InDesign or similar. In which case,

yes I think that would be the obvious thing to do.

But what if, as in this case, one has inherited straight PDFs? Which is

why this is under Acrobat queries. So it looks very much as if there's

nothing in Acrobat to enable 2–up, a.k.a. imposition page assembly.

[Abambo]

Do you have access to Indesign?

(BTW you did omit that little part:

lrp37300752  wrote

But what if, as in this case, one has inherited straight PDFs?

which teaches us always to tell the whole story )

[Luke Jennings]

Hi Lindsay, I didn't see anything in the Kindle formatting guide about gutters, although TBH, I don't have the time to look too closely.

I would place the PDFs into an appropriately sized InDesign file to create the needed gutters and export to a new PDF (If you're sure that's what they need).

[carol_1304]

I had the same problem. My pdf was created the right size for the book that was printed, but when I tried to use it for Amazon they said the margins and gutter needed to be larger. I can't figure out how to make the changes on acrobat so if you found a way please let me know.

[Meenakshi Negi]

Hi carol_1304,

Thank you for reaching out.

You can use the Crop tool under Edit PDF in Acrobat to make changes to the margin. Please refer to the information in the following help document: https://adobe.ly/3G0Yz1Z. 

Hope that helps.

Let us know if you are referring to something else.

Thanks,

Meenakshi