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Hi all,

Having been given a brochure template to use that includes facing pages/spreads, and having completed all the work, I'm now being asked to provide a PDF with single pages. 

If I uncheck 'facing pages' in Document Setup I get single pages but I lose all page elements/objects that were spread over the 2 pages.

*Please please please* tell me there's a way around this.

 

thanks!

R

 

Posted
37 minutes ago, RLi said:

I'm now being asked to provide a PDF with single pages

  1. pick your PDF export preset
  2. select Area > All Pages

That's all.
A PDF is "facing-pages-agnostic" unless you define the default view by editing the PDF e.g. in Acrobat. And even then, some PDF viewers like Apple's Preview.app will ignore it anyway.

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Posted
3 minutes ago, loukash said:
  1. pick your PDF export preset
  2. select Area > All Pages

That's all.
A PDF is "facing-pages-agnostic" unless you define the default view by editing the PDF e.g. in Acrobat. And even then, some PDF viewers like Apple's Preview.app will ignore it anyway.

Ok, thanks so much. 

But the secondary issue is that there's of course no bleed area allowance in the brochure gutter, so, when exported as single pages, the gutter bleed areas contain repeated information from the facing page. Is that normal/OK from a print perspective?

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Posted
2 minutes ago, RLi said:

the gutter bleed areas contain repeated information from the facing page. Is that normal/OK from a print perspective?

So, you'll be delivering the PDF to the print house, and they will impose the pages themselves, right?
If so, all is fine.

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Posted
1 hour ago, RLi said:

the gutter bleed areas contain repeated information from the facing page. Is that normal/OK from a print perspective?

Alternatively you can set the inner bleed = 0, it may depend of the printers desire / workflow.

2 hours ago, loukash said:

some PDF viewers like Apple's Preview.app will ignore it anyway.

You have the choice;)

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Posted
1 hour ago, thomaso said:

You have the choice;)

Yes, but it will ignore Acrobat's document setting nonetheless:

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