Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 637)

631 USING INDESIGN
Printing
Last updated 11/16/2011
For example, if you want to create printer spreads for a traditional six-panel, trifold brochure, choose 3-up
Consecutive. You may be accustomed to setting up trifolds as one page with three different columns. With InDesign
imposition, you can simply create pages that are the size of each panel.
3-Up Consecutive
Spacing, bleed, and margin options for booklet printing
You can change the following options in the Setup area of the Print Booklet dialog box.
Space Between Pages Specifies the gap between pages (the right side of the left page and the left side of the right page).
You can specify a Space Between Pages value for all the booklet types except Saddle Stitch.
For Perfect Bound documents, if you are creeping in (with a negative value), the minimum Space Between Pages value
is the width of the Creep value. If you’re manually creating signatures (for example, if there are different stocks in the
same document), you can enter a Space Between Pages value to specify a starting creep for spreads that belong to
different signatures.
Bleed Between Pages Specifies the amount of space used to allow page elements to encroach the gap in Perfect Bound
printer spread styles. This option is sometimes referred to as crossover.) The field accepts values between 0 and half the
Space Between Pages value. You can specify this option only when 2-up Perfect Bound is selected.
Creep Specifies the amount of space necessary to accommodate paper thickness and folding on each signature. In
most cases, you’ll want to specify a negative value to create a push-in effect. You can specify Creep for 2-up Saddle
Stitch and 2-up Perfect Bound booklet types. (See “
Understanding creep ” on page 632.)
Signature Size Specifies the number of pages in each signature for 2-up Perfect Bound documents. If the number of
pages to be imposed is not evenly divisible by the Signature Size value, blank pages are added to the end of the
document as necessary.
Automatically Adjust To Fit Marks And Bleeds Lets InDesign calculate the margins to accommodate the bleeds and the
other printer mark options currently set. The fields under Margins are dimmed when this option is selected, but they
reflect the actual values that will be used to fit marks and bleeds. If you deselect this option, you can adjust the margin
values manually.
Margins Specifies the amount of space that surrounds the actual printer spread after trimming. To specify individual
values for Top, Bottom, Left, and Right, deselect Automatically Adjust To Fit Marks And Bleeds, and increase the
values to insert extra space beyond the default marks and bleeds. (Decreasing the values may result in clipping the
marks and bleeds.) You can specify margin values for all booklet printing types.
Print Blank Printer Spreads If the number of pages to be imposed is not evenly divisible by the Signature Size value,
blank pages or spreads are added to the end of the document. Use this option to determine whether those blank spreads
at the end of the document are printed. Note that printing other blank pages in the document is controlled by the Print
Blank Pages option in the Print dialog box.