Comments on: Breaking Pages Apart to Bleed Off a Spine

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:16:06 +0000

6 years later and this is still helping people! thanks!

By: ID CS5.5 export Interactive PDF as single pages, not spreads » free icons download

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:56:00 +0000

[...] method is to split the spreads before exporting (see InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Breaking Pages Apart to Bleed Off a Spine and [...]

By: Acester

Acester — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:36:28 +0000

Thank you SO much! You just saved us from being late on a press date. I hope when (and if) you need help that someone helps you like you just helped us!

By: tammy

tammy — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:12:27 +0000

Twice a year I have to do this, and I forget how I did it the last time, and Google this anew. I’m gonna bookmark this page now. Thank you, David, for preventing self-inflicted injuries by many designers!!! (j/k)

By: tomas

tomas — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:27:52 +0000

thank you, thank you… thank you helped a lot

By: ademir

ademir — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:35:41 +0000

thanx david!
it’s almost nice to encounter software-problems when afterwards you’re able to find such simple and elegant solutions. i mean “move page 3 after page 3″ is pure genius at work. no script or anything i’ve seen goes beyond
this – respect and thanx.

By: JULIJE JELASKA

JULIJE JELASKA — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:54:20 +0000

I saw your videos.They are really great,and INDESIGN CS5 also.By my opinion the best programand most easyest for graph.designs prepress layouts are INDESIGN CS 5.Thanks for part of prepress about jpg,eps and pdf.Its great to know because in Europe has now strong press with COMPUTER TO PLATE (CTP) tehnology, and they search for strong and healthy PDF’s!
Thans again,;please fokus on COLOURS,more about SPOT and PROCESS colours in the next CS6 edition!
Amazing!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:31:50 +0000

Another option which I personally found a lot easier to work with is to choose your page size and then add the bleed width to it.
From there you can adjust your margins to the required size and create an internal crop mark of your own.

E.g. for A5 I added 5mm to my page width (from 147mm to 153). I used 5mm bleed on top, bottom and outside but 0mm on the inside, and added 5mm to my preferred inside margin instead (from 7.5mm to 12.5mm). Then in my master spread i manually added a couple of crop lines 5mm from the inside page edge.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:28:13 +0000

I tried the javascript to stagger pages. The document I ran the script on has an anchored element outside the text box. The script causes the left page elements to shift incorrectly. It splits and staggers the pages, but causes problems (because of the anchored element?)

Anyone else experience this? It would work great and be very helpful if this bug were fixed.

thanks

By: Jongware

Jongware — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:32:18 +0000

@Peggie: this has hardly anything to do with "Breaking pages apart (etc.)" ... Random questions are better asked in the Secrets forum. Anyway: InDesign cannot do any calculations on its own. If you want the sums imported from Excel, it's best to add them in there before importing the entire sheet into ID.