Publisher - bleed on outside edge only

[Woodpig]

Hi everyone,

This is probably a silly question with a simple answer, but I can't seem to solve it. I want to export a document in single pages (i.e. not facing), with a bleed on the outside edge only. However, I can only seem to find a way to alter the bleed on the document as a whole, which then applies to all spreads. Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Gareth.

[walt.farrell]

6 minutes ago, Woodpig said:

with a bleed on the outside edge only

Out of curiosity: why?

[Woodpig]

It's what the publisher has asked for: bleed top, bottom, and outside edge. When I try to upload with a bleed on both sides, I get an error that the document is too wide. I suppose I could split the bleed with across both outer edges, but that's not idea - and not what they've asked for.

[walt.farrell]

Thanks.

I am not an expert, but it almost sounds like they're expecting you to provide facing-page spreads, not individual pages. Or that they're going to impose them back into facing-page format.

You might inquire further about that, and see if you could just give them facing-page spreads to being with.

[Woodpig]

I thought that too, but when i upload facing page spreads, I get another error! I will inquire - but does that mean there's not a way of doing this?

[walt.farrell]

Well, you can set the inner Bleed to 0 for a Facing Pages document in Document Setup if you unlink the settings. I don't know if that will accomplish what you need when exporting, but it's probably worth a try.

[Woodpig]

No, that doesn't work, I'm afraid. That's pretty much what I tried before.

[Woodpig]

OK, so this seems undoable using AP:

• You can only set bleed via the document settings, not for individual spreads
• You can set bleed for outer edges that are different from the inner edge, but only if you select "facing pages".
• If you select "single pages", then the "inner" and "outer" bleed settings change to "left" and "right" - which simply applies the same settings to each spread (and so won't work for my purposes).

Any other ideas?

[PaulEC]

Have you tried setting the document up as Facing Pages (with the margins set as needed), but then exporting the PDF as All Pages (rather  than as spreads.)? 

[Woodpig]

OK, I'm officially an idiot - I was exporting as All Spreads! Thank you!

[walt.farrell]

43 minutes ago, Woodpig said:

You can set bleed for outer edges that are different from the inner edge, but only if you select "facing pages".

But doesn't that give you what you want? Or does something break when you then Export using All Pages?

[Woodpig]

Yes, I'm sorry, Walt - that's what I tried, but not exporting as "All Pages". As I said, I'm an idiot. Sorry! And thank you once again.

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.