For Layout (facing) pages, bleed is outside only on Publisher

[kmergen]

I have a document with A4 pages. I need a Bleed of 3mm.

If I do it with normal pages it works correct. Bleed on every side.

If I want to work with layout pages (for better overview) the bleed is only on the outside of the two pages. I think this is not correct.

 

[Hangman]

Hi @kmergen and welcome to the forums,

No, this is correct... when viewing facing pages you don't want or need to see the inner bleed, imagine how that would look if your image covered the entire spread rather than just a left or right page, it would look 'odd' and likewise, when the spread is shown with the pages butting up to each other, how would you show the inner bleed for both the left and right pages at the same time, you could only really do that if the two pages had a 6mm (0.25") gap between them...

When exporting the facing pages as individual pages the bleed will still be visible on all sides you've specified it for...

[Komatös]

15 minutes ago, kmergen said:

I have a document with A4 pages. I need a Bleed of 3mm.

If I do it with normal pages it works correct. Bleed on every side.

If I want to work with layout pages (for better overview) the bleed is only on the outside of the two pages. I think this is not correct.

This is not a bug, it is the normal view when they work with facing pages.

Das ist kein Fehler, es ist die normale Ansicht, wenn sie mit gegenüberliegenden Seiten arbeiten.

Schalten sie die Option in den Dokumenteneinstellungen aus.

 

[kmergen]

Thank you for your quick response.

I understand that now.

Thank you for the good Explanation

[kmergen]

One thing I have see when I exported that as pdf as pages i get the following output. Is that correct

[thomaso]

On 7/29/2023 at 6:19 PM, kmergen said:

One thing I have see when I exported that as pdf as pages i get the following output. Is that correct

Because you exported the pages as single pages, they have an inner bleed with the contents of the opposite page, as it would be visible in a printed result with facing pages (at the right edge on page 1 and on the left on page 2).

Whether this is correct depends on the requirements of the print service provider. Not all want the inner bleed in a delivered PDF. For them, you would simply set the inner bleed to zero in the document properties without changing the layout elements.

If you need inner bleed with continuous content of the same page (e.g. on page 1 the beige background, on page 2 the fruit image) you can't use a facing pages document but need to switch the document properties to single pages before export (and thus need to adjust / duplicate layout items that should show on both pages of the later spread).