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Why is still extra spacing on my pasteboard if all margins from the pasteboard options are removed?

Enthusiast ,
Oct 08, 2022 Oct 08, 2022

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My bleed is also removed:

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The margins at the pasteboard options are also removed:

2022-10-08_17-45.png

Yet there is lots of extra spacing left:

2022-10-08_17-44.png

Is this due to some specific page setup for the jacket? 

 

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Community Expert , Oct 08, 2022 Oct 08, 2022
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So my extra distance (and only to the right) of my pasteboard is 1 + 2 .


By @Chris P. Bacon

Because the spine is at the right of your left pages.

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Oct 08, 2022 Oct 08, 2022

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There is no pasteboard on your screenshot. And the bleed and the slug area is something different.

 

I have a pasteboard (210mm, 25mm) in my example:

Abambo_0-1665248873609.png

However, I do not understand in what the pasteboard disturbs you? I'm now doing InDesign since version 1, and I never touched the pasteboard until now. https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/pages-spreads.html

 

In the final design, the pasteboard is non-existent, when exporting. The slug area and especially the bleed area may well be needed.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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The area marked with the big rectangle on my third image IS the pasteboard.

The pasteboard is useless space while creating, so I don't want it.

I work on a 12.5 inch HD laptop, which suits my eyes cause I (still) have good eyes, and I am on the road, so I don't want to carry a bigger laptop. So i need to spare my space on the screen.

But the main reason why I don't want the pasteboard is that I am resizing the document window to the physical size of my document, because if you do that, you can navigate just by clicking on the pages in the pages tab, while having a perfect physical size view (and no bloat, no extra space, no pasteboard), without scrolling or panning while creating the document, because InDesign it seems it's made smartly so that it will scroll the spread to the max right when clicking to the right page on the spread, and to the max left when clicking on the left (facing pages).

I know that sometimes you need a bit of a pasteboard to paste stuff that you don't want to paste into the pages directly, but for that I can use the pasteboard areas in between the pages, vertically.

I am already set up with the setup mentioned above for my document pages document.

Now I need to set it up for my jacket document.

 

 

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I reduced the pasteboard to 0 and it worked:

Abambo_0-1665253087757.png

A pasteboard of 25mm:

Abambo_0-1665253175526.png

(just to show the difference)

 

 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Maybe that I understand the problem:

Abambo_0-1665253941699.png

My second page uses a different page size, and the pasteboard seems to adapt to the biggest page in the document.

 

And a different situation:

Abambo_1-1665254211553.png

You see the pattern, and I think there is no "solution" to this, that can be set with a parameter. At least not to my knowledge.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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I see, but my pages except my spine are all the same size:

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So my extra distance (and only to the right) of my pasteboard is 1 + 2 .

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So my extra distance (and only to the right) of my pasteboard is 1 + 2 .


By @Chris P. Bacon

Because the spine is at the right of your left pages.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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The small rectangle is not the pasteboard, it only illustrates whoch part of the pages is shown on the pasteboard. 

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But look at this:

2022-10-08_19-51.png

Why does it work for my pages document, without any pasteboard?

No matter you scroll left or right (or click right page or left page on the pages panel), there is no pasteboard left in the document window, horizontally.

 

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Spine to the left of my right page:

Abambo_0-1665258099116.png

 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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You don't have your windows undocked, like I do.

Undock your document windows.

Without undocking them you cannot resize the document window.

I am resizing them to the physical size of my document.

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Here's the cover IDML, if you wan to take a look.

And here's the pages IDML, for comparison.

For the pages document you can get the pasteboard gone by undocking the document window , set the doc to physical size, then adjust the window to it.

But you can't do it for the jacket document. 

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Ah, figured it out, now the issue is gone:

Needed to rearrange my jacket pages in the pages tab:

2022-10-08_20-28.jpg

 

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You basically fixed what @Abambo was trying to tell you. You had all your pages to the left of the spine, so InDesign made the same space available to the right of the spine. At some point, you must have turned off Allow Document Pages to Shuffle. 

 

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The area marked with the big rectangle on my third image IS the pasteboard.

 

No, it’s the Layout Window background, which is not the same as the Pasteboard:

 

Screen Shot 2.pngScreen Shot 3.png

 

 

Seems like you might be looking for View>Screen Modes:

 

Screen Shot 6.pngScreen Shot 7.pngScreen Shot 8.png

 

 

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