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128 Turning off allow pages to shuffle in order to separate facing pages

128 Turning off allow pages to shuffle in order to separate facing pages - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

128 Turning off allow pages to shuffle in order to separate facing pages

You know the concept of bleeding objects off a page, right. For example, on this page, this background frame has color that goes off the side of the page. It has to do that. It has to go past the edge, because the printer is going to print this on a larger piece of paper and then trim it down. But what about here in the center? The gutter, or the spine, of the spread. Well, you usually don't need to bleed into the spine, because it'll either just get lost when the book is bound, or you would end up on another page which might look icky. However, every so often, you might need to bleed into the spine. One example is if your book is going to be spiral-bound. Or, if your printer tells you that you just need to do it. In that case, what can you do? Where's the bleed area? Well, I'll show you a trick to split these pages apart, so that you do have a bleed area to bleed into. Here's what you do. Open up your Pages panel, and then in the Pages panel menu, you need to turn off Allow Document…

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