Reply To: Perfect binding – pictures across the spine

Yes, it’s common for pages to move slightly farther in or out based on the kind of binding and where the page sits on the signature. But there are problems with their request: First, you’d have to move some images out just a tiny bit, and others out a lot more. Moving them all out the same amount makes no sense to me.

Second, you splitting the images into multiple frames that do not actually span the gutter makes no sense because you’re exploring to PDF… and InDesign does all that splitting for you in the PDF.

And third, again, this is what printers do, not designers. There is no way that you can do this correctly unless you know how they’re imposing it, how thick the paper is, etc. This is really basic imposition, as far as I know. I mean, jeez, even InDesign’s File > Print Booklet feature has a basic Creep feature built in.