Reply To: Working with spreads that will be split into pages for perfect binding

No, they don’t cut the pages individually. The printer will impose the pages and print them as spreads (just in a different order), fold them and bind them. So they don’t need a bleed on the spine wich they will remove anyway so this is really nothing you have to concern yourself with.

Really the ONLY binding technique I can think about where this could become an issue is wire binding. But in that case designing across the “spine” is probably a bad idea anyway.

If for some reason you have to this anyway, don’t use a spread document, use single pages and arrange your spreads manually with some gap between them.