No Allowance for Inside Bleed of Facing Pages?
Daryl Pritchard Sep 4, 2008 12:03 AMHello all,
I'm just getting my feet wet with InDesign CS3, doing my first book design for a book my sister is writing. All is going well except for what strikes me as a significant problem with how ID CS3 handles the inside bleed for a document with a facing pages layout. Namely, as the workspace provides no bleed zone, any image placed such that it should only spill into an inside bleed zone instead overlaps the document centerline and onto the facing page. The result when exporting a PDF is that the portion of the image that should be lost in the trimming of the document is instead kept as a presumably desirable part of the printable facing page's content.
By reducing the margins or bleed zones, one may be able to keep the image from crossing the crop line of the facing page, but barely. In many cases, even if some part of the image was carried erroneously onto the facing page, it might disappear in the binding of a book, but not necessarily.
The topic of http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b61782/0 appears to be about this same issue, which finds me begging the question if despreading the document (if I understand this meaning to split the document apart) is truly the only solution? Is this a new problem introduced by InDesign CS3 or it is a problem that has always existed yet been ignored? It just seems hard to believe that this kind of thing would be allowed to happen.
I suspect the experienced InDesign users here will know what this problem is all about, but for those new to the application like myself, the image provided at http://ambress.com/indesign/IDtoPDFerror.jpg illustrates what is occurring. With my goal being to produce a single press-ready PDF, the only solution I have found consists of 6 steps:
1. Export the full book as PDF
2. Delete the image and print the current spread, so the facing page exports to a usable PDF with the same printer's marks.
3. Restore the image and disable the facing pages document setup option, confirming the inner/outer margins are correct for the left or right-hand page that provides the image. This will again ensure the printer's marks remain correctly positioned.
4. Export the image page to PDF
5. Replace the two pages of the full book PDF with the two singly exported pages.
While this process is relatively simple to do, and not so bad if there are only a few such pages to deal with, I still must say, surely there is a better way?
Thanks,
Daryl
I'm just getting my feet wet with InDesign CS3, doing my first book design for a book my sister is writing. All is going well except for what strikes me as a significant problem with how ID CS3 handles the inside bleed for a document with a facing pages layout. Namely, as the workspace provides no bleed zone, any image placed such that it should only spill into an inside bleed zone instead overlaps the document centerline and onto the facing page. The result when exporting a PDF is that the portion of the image that should be lost in the trimming of the document is instead kept as a presumably desirable part of the printable facing page's content.
By reducing the margins or bleed zones, one may be able to keep the image from crossing the crop line of the facing page, but barely. In many cases, even if some part of the image was carried erroneously onto the facing page, it might disappear in the binding of a book, but not necessarily.
The topic of http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b61782/0 appears to be about this same issue, which finds me begging the question if despreading the document (if I understand this meaning to split the document apart) is truly the only solution? Is this a new problem introduced by InDesign CS3 or it is a problem that has always existed yet been ignored? It just seems hard to believe that this kind of thing would be allowed to happen.
I suspect the experienced InDesign users here will know what this problem is all about, but for those new to the application like myself, the image provided at http://ambress.com/indesign/IDtoPDFerror.jpg illustrates what is occurring. With my goal being to produce a single press-ready PDF, the only solution I have found consists of 6 steps:
1. Export the full book as PDF
2. Delete the image and print the current spread, so the facing page exports to a usable PDF with the same printer's marks.
3. Restore the image and disable the facing pages document setup option, confirming the inner/outer margins are correct for the left or right-hand page that provides the image. This will again ensure the printer's marks remain correctly positioned.
4. Export the image page to PDF
5. Replace the two pages of the full book PDF with the two singly exported pages.
While this process is relatively simple to do, and not so bad if there are only a few such pages to deal with, I still must say, surely there is a better way?
Thanks,
Daryl



