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• • January 5, 2015 at 6:39 am #72506
    avisar goldman

    Member

    Hello,

    I was wondering if anyone knows of a way (indesign plug-in or manual technique) to split an image across all the edges of the pages in a book.
    every page has a 3mm piece on the edge with the image slightly moving with every page, this way creating the effect of a full image when the book is bended.
    The image is not printed on the sides of the pages, but on the edges..
    this is a good example of what im talking about:
    https://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com/images/made/images/u_work/madeyoulook_7_1_499_309.jpg
    https://sunshinelollipop.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/madeyoulookside.jpg

    thank you very much!

  • January 5, 2015 at 7:29 am #72507
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    That’s awesome. I always wanted to do that with one of our large books. I’m sure it could be scripted, but I don’t recall seeing one.

  • January 5, 2015 at 7:32 am #72508
    avisar goldman

    Member

    Hey David, thanks for the reply.

    I think it involves calculating the number of pages and moving the image an x number of mm up or down on every page, but i am quite at loss as to how its done.
    here’s a video link to get a better look at the edges.

  • February 2, 2015 at 2:25 pm #73076
    Kris Coppieters

    Participant

    I’ve made an attempt at providing such thing – try this:

    https://www.rorohiko.com/downloads/EdgeSkipper.1.0.1.zip

    Not sure if it fits the bill – let me know!

    Cheers,

    Kris

    • May 30, 2022 at 9:54 am #14366117
      Marco Valerio

      Participant

      Hi Kris, your script is very useful. Only a question: what measure unit do you adopt for paper thickness? Micron or other? Thanks for your answer.

  • February 20, 2016 at 4:33 am #82125
    Lukas Guschlbauer

    Member

    Hey Kris!

    Just tried your attempt and there is one things that would be great as improvement:
    A param like “reverse:1/0” for images on the left pages, so you can achieve two different images for bending the book in both directions.

    Cheers Lukas

  • April 5, 2016 at 8:41 am #83720
    Jennifer McHenry

    Member

    I have been wondering the same thing. Here is the best quality of that kind of printing I have seen…

    If you scroll down the page, there are even better pictures of it. Have you made any progress in finding out how this is done?

  • April 5, 2016 at 8:59 am #83721
    Jennifer McHenry

    Member

    I work for a printer and he told me this is called fore edge printing. Here is a link to a video for that…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5e4hQvj6k8

  • April 8, 2016 at 6:16 am #82157
    marlon brando

    Member

    Actually this might be a lot easier to control if the binding is perfect bound, and the printing is done in blocks rather than folded signatures since the position wouldn’t need to change to accommodate creep in the page position. There’s still a need to move the image inside the frame along the page edge incrementally, though.

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