text from one page appears on another one, how do i fix this?

[Brandon23948078mdb4]

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

It looks to me as if you have multiple text frames on the pasteboard. Zoom out a bit and check the threading of the frames.

In Normal display mode, turn on Show Text Threads (under View | Extras, or Ctrl-Alt-Y). I suspect you're going to see two sets of threaded frames, or some similar layout issue.

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[Jeremy AB]

Is that screenshot a PDF you exported from InDesign?

I've seen something similar before. If you are using facing pages, then export to PDF with a large enough bleed, it will include parts of the page next to it. Reduce your bleed or turn off facing pages.

[jmlevy]

Something is strange in your screenshot: page 27 should be a right page and page 28 a left page…

[Frans v.d. Geest]

Yes, I see that as well, very strange...

[Frans v.d. Geest · Accepted solution]

There is a bleed value set for the page, when you export to PDF you will see this, that is what bleed means. You can set the inside bleed to 0, but what you see is normal. If you do not want to see this if you intend on screen display only, don't use bleed and do not use printer marks.

But for print, in short: this is normal and just the way it works 😉

(If you take a look at the cut marks you will see that the parts will be cut off so no problem there)

[Luke Jennings3]

Your InDesign document has a slug value, and you are including the slug area when you export to pdf. You generally don't need to include the slug area in your pdf, omitting this should remove the page spill over. You are also using facing pages in your document set up, so it's usually best to set your inside bleed to 0, exceptions to this rule are for perfect bound or spiral bound books*, (ask your printer if they want inside bleed). The odd page on the left could be the result of setting the page display view to Two-up (Facing) during export to pdf, but the first InDesign page is the front cover.

*it is sometimes necessary to have a mix of facing pages and single pages in an InDesign file in order to properly include inside bleed.