Inner Margin and Bleed Settings

[mpkadobe]

I am working on a MacBooPro OS 10.6.8 with InDesign CS5.

I have laid out a 257 page book in 6" x 9" format with facing pages. Some of the pages have full-bleed graphics so I set the bleed of all edges at 0.125" (1/8"). When I make a PDF of the layout, however, the inner margin is strange. Instead of having a proper bleed, some of the facing page gets assigned to the page. (see attached images).

Am I doing something wrong? How can a full-bleed book be set up so that each individual page has a bleed in the gutter, rather that a portion of the neighboring page?

Marc

[rob day]

Any Inside Bleed amount gets removed with the imposition—with saddle stitch and perfect binding the inside edge is folded on the spine not trimmed.

[Catalina26313767zbhu]

So that's perfectly fine the way it is? That interior line will be cutted out?

[rob day]

Does Amazon request an Inside Bleed? Looks like from your capture of their Preview app they are expecting no Inside Bleed (the inside bleed to be set to 0)

[Catalina26313767zbhu]

Yes... that was the problem. Thank you so much! I set it to 0 and looks fine now. I was searching this for a week already, so bless you!