Document setup instructions

[Chris P. Bacon]

It has been said previously that the instructions of my printing company are vague, so I don't understand now if the jacket (back cover + front cover + spine) will be cut out from the same piece of paper, or each of them separately?

Because if only 1 piece of paper, then I will need to add extra spacing only for the boundary of the jacket as a whole.

If separate pieces, then I will need to add the safety margins and bleeds around each of the 3 pages.

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Above it's possible to download the 2 guidance documents for the setup (PDFs).

If anyone could take a look at it to determine the answer?

Thanks in advance.

[rob day]

Why not

Hi Jain, the original post was about the printer’s jacket setup instructions, but drifted into the interior bleed settings.

Brad and I are suggesting there is no need to split the interior spreads for an extended bleed when the binding is not wire-o. The pages are going to get imposed for folded signatures, so the content of the inside bleed doesn’t matter because it will be removed during the imposition, or get buried in the binding.

[J E L]

Thanks for that! I'm a drifter myself! Hopefully, if anyone else stumbles on this long thread, the basics of how to set up a cover document will be easily discovered.