This looks like a problem either with how you set up the bleed, or those are bleed marks and you've omitted the crop marks in the PDF export.

Please show us the Document Setup dialog with the more options button pushed so we can see the bleed and slug fields, and the PDF export dialog marks and bleeds screen.

Let me add that the more I look at this the more I think it's that you used bleeb marks instead of crops, and that you have an inside bleed set. If that't s the case, what you see is expected -- inside bleed on facing pages is the edge of the opposite page unless you split the spread (see InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Breaking Pages Apart to Bleed Off a Spine). This is not a problem unless the printer wants to add creep and expose part of the bleed area for some reason. Omitting the crop marks, though, while not fatal (most RIPs will add them I think) is certainly confusing to anyone looking at the PDF and should be fixed.

Set the inside bleed to zero.

Bob

Just noticed another problem. That page count is going to cause real headaches. Either remove 2 pages or add them.

Bob

You still have 3 mm set for the inside bleed!

Bob

Given my lack of recent print experience I’ll go with you on that.

Bob

I don't have a booklet exactly like yours in my archive, but this one is similar:

The big difference is that I didn't want  page numbers to appear on any of the pages, so I didn't need to set up sections. In this case I used the inside cover for the organization's brief bio, and waht would normally be the half-title for the list of artists, and all following pages are the art and the artist's individual statements about it.

Personally, I would move the back cover to the end of the file. And You don't need to start a new section for it, or for the page numbered 3 that follows it unless there is a change in numbering or style at that point. And you SHOULD change your numbering styles from sectio to section if they contain duplicate numbers.

What is the total page count now that you've added pages?

Crop marks are at the page edge, and the bleed will extend beyond them. Sounds like you still have bleed marks, not crop marks, enabled in the export dialog.

Why are you exporting SPREADS? The printer cannot use them.

Well if those are bleed marks it means either you turned off "use document bleed settings" or you didn't actually extend the art out to the bleed guides so there is nothing to bleed. But I think they may still bleed marks based on how close together they are -- hard to tell in a screen shot. Look at the difference here:

Thes crops are set out a bit further than the default so they fall completley outside the bleed area, but if things are set correctly, and you've included bleeds in the file, your edges and corners will extend past the marks.

Your settings should look similar to this:

The upper one is expected. That's the inside bleed (the edge of the other page), which as I said earlier should not be an issue, but to make you, and Bob, feel more comfortable set the document bleed options like this in the document setup dialog:

(break the chainlink on the Bleed settings, then set the Inside field to 0)

robandyk wrote:

 

Of course because it will get cut off anyway, understood. Well seems you have helped me beyond what I thought was humanly possible, it's greatly appreciated, hope the rest of your day isn't as stressful and thankyou!

Not quite, I think, in the way you are thinking. Bleed is added to accomodate problems caused by bad alignments on press or on the cutter. You should not assume that the entire bleed area will be cut off, nor that if the sheet is misaligned in some way that part of the area inside the edge of the page will nto get trimmed off. Essentially, if some of the bleed area shows on one edge, the opposite edge is being trimmed inside the page edge by an equal amount.

In this case, your "problem" bleed allowance is on the inside edge where the pages join. The software that assembles the pages into the correct order for printing (imposing printer's spreads) is going to ignore the inside bleed allowance and but the two page edges together at what is to become the fold. The only time that bleed area migh be used is if you were adding "creep" (spreading the pages apart by successive thicknesses of the paper) to compensate for "shingling" which is the tendancy of the inner sheets to protrude as the number of sheets builds up and the loss of the outside margin on the inner pages when the stitched book is "face trimmed" to have a smooth edge. For only six sheets in your booklet, unless your outside margins are tiny, the loss will be too small to be noticeable so no creep is likely. In this case, if the re is misalignment in folding or trimming, you'll see the edge of the opposite page onthe sheet (not the opposite page of the spread) showing on one side (think of the fold not falling in the center).