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Spreads with inner bleed (for spiral binding)

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    • June 5, 2022 at 1:30 pm #14366442
      Caspian Ievers
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      A slightly curly question. I am artworking a spiral bound book recipe book. Usually I’d have the book set up as facing pages/spreads. But in this instance as the pages are effectively single pages I need bleed on the inner edge which means I have to set up as single pages and then remember if the page is a left or a right one (which isn’t ideal), unless I’m missing a trick. Ideally I’d have the pages as facing pages but with inner bleed as a few background photos cover both left and right pages.
      What would the pros do in this instance? Set it up as facing pages and then convert to non-facing pages at the end, or something else?

    • June 5, 2022 at 2:14 pm #14366443
      Dieter Stockert
      Member

      Maybe this helps:

    • June 5, 2022 at 2:34 pm #14366444
      Caspian Ievers
      Member

      I’ve used that before, but never knew that it respected the bleed too. This might just work. You are a brilliant for sharing this gem. And thanks to David for the content.

    • June 5, 2022 at 10:34 pm #14366445
      Petar Petrenko
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      I would do it as a standard facing pages book without inner bleed. I’ve never ever used inner bleed for 30+ years whether it was PageMaker, QuarkXPress, InDesign or now Affinity Publiser and never had any problems with it.
      I don’t know what is so special in spiral bounding? I’ve done this kind of books, too without any special treatement.

    • June 5, 2022 at 10:38 pm #14366446
      Caspian Ievers
      Member

      Me too. But the back and forth with the Chinese printer trying to change their mind isn’t worth the drama. This solution works perfectly.

    • June 6, 2022 at 12:26 am #14366447
      Steve Davis
      Participant

      How I wish I had seen this a month ago when the Jewish holiday calendar I designed went to print!

    • June 6, 2022 at 8:36 am #14366469
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Here is an article I wrote some time ago about splitting up pages for spiral bound bleed printing:

      Breaking Pages Apart to Bleed Off a Spine

    • June 21, 2022 at 2:44 am #14366846
      Jenifer Smith
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      I don’t see another way as you wrote, to set it up as facing pages and then convert to non-facing pages at the end. Only to do with a standard facing pages book without inner bleed.

      Regards, John, manager, WorkTime
      (https://www.worktime.com/)

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