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Creating Magazine with bleeds

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August 13, 2019
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I have a 28 page magazine plus cover with facing pages with a .125 bleed on 8.5x11in pages with a two page spread design. When designing artwork I have to design passed to the bleed area which makes the page width 8.5 + bleed on the edges that face outside. The way that we work is pages need to be arranged and the order needs to be sorted right before we go to print. So now the left pages are the right hand side and visa versa, causing the bleed edges to be recut so that iut doesnt bleed into the other page. Is there any other way to design so I don't need to keep going back and redesign according to bleed?

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Correct answer BobLevine

Im running into a problem when I turn off facing pages as my printer has requested, off. my master pages are screwed as I had them as Left and Right fall into the appropriate positions and then indesgin just uses my Left master page for all of the pages now single.

Are you sure the printer requested that you do that in InDesign? I find it hard to understand why any printer would care how your InDesign file was set up. Once you send a PDF it will be individual pages, anyway.

Time for a phone call to get an explanation.

BobLevine

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Rearranged for what purpose? Imposition?

That's the printer's job, not yours, so please clarify this workflow for us so we can help.

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renaemp

Inspiring

Converting from reader spreads to printer spreads shouldn’t change which side the page is on except for the front & back cover. If they do, then something went wrong. You can use Print Booklet to create a pre-imposed pdf, but if you need to send native files most print shops should be able to do that for you (at least they used to. Been seeing a lot of people saying otherwise of late).

rob day

Community Expert

shouldn’t change which side the page is on except for the front & back cover.

Even the cover should stay on the right side with the back cover on the left in a 2-up, 28 page imposition. It seems like the OP is referring to imposition, but not if the pages are changing sides.

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openskies2009Author

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Imposition is never done in the page layout. Normally the printer handles the imposition at output via their RIP or a plugin.

InDesign and Acrobat offer bare bones imposition via Print Booklet. At the very least your printer should be able to output your reader spreads as printer spreads via Acrobat’s Booklet feature.

With Print Booklet the pages get reorder when you print. So here you can see I have a 28 page document set up as reader spreads starting with page one to the right of the spine. The Print Booklet Preview showing the page 2-27 printer spread

Got it!!

Now is there anyway I can output this book format to PDF for preview? We send off to other clients via PDF for review so they can print and markup

JonathanArias

Legend

sounds like the re-arranging is the source of the issue. if you re-arrange the bleeds are off because of the placement.

you should be working single page versus spread so your bleeds are set up on both sides. you can always make a spread later .

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

no, that is not correct, as InDesign has styles which are relative to the spine and objects or texts with such styles become corrupted.

It is possible to separate pages from a spread to single left and right pages when you don't allow page shuffling in the page panel menu.

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openskies2009Author

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Im running into a problem when I turn off facing pages as my printer has requested, off. my master pages are screwed as I had them as Left and Right fall into the appropriate positions and then indesgin just uses my Left master page for all of the pages now single.

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