[jjgareh]

We are having problems with multiple jobs that are setup as page spreads in Indesign CS2. Whenever a picture box is touching the spine, part of that page shows up on the page next to it when imposed. Neither the imposition software (Preps 4.x), or the RIP (ApogeeX 3.0) seem to be the problem, as we've tried alternates and come up with the same results.

eg. Page 6 and 7 are spreads respectively in the original Indesign file. When imposed, page 20 is left of 7, saddle stitched. A hairline of page 6 is showing at the edge of page 7, which is right on the fold, but is very obvious since page 6 was a full page image, and page 7 has a 1" white border around the edges.

In Indesign, when the "Origin" in the "Units & Increments" preference is set to "Spread", the top right origin of the image on page 6, says "X=7.5, Y=-0.125", which is correct (-0.125 is the top bleed, page is 7.5" wide). When the "Origin" preference is set to "Page", the top right origin is now "X=0, Y=-0.125". X=0 meaning the image is on page 7, when it should be on page 6. This seems to be my problem. If I manually move the image left, with the X co-ordinate as 7.499 on page 6, it works fine. This is a major problem if you have 50+ pages to check, on multiple jobs, it's not reasonable to do this.

Any idea how to solve/hide/get around this?
PS - I am a RIP trainer/installer, so I might not understand all the 'graphic designer' Indesign lingo.
Thanks.

[sahnapiranha]

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to automatically correct this problem other than the way you described--by manually repositioning the image or object that's on the offending page.

This is a known issue; there is a thread on Adobe's forums that discusses this issue at greater length:

bleed in gutter - User to User Forums

Hopefully, you will be able to find a "real" solution (other than switching to Quark ).

Good luck, and please let us know if you find a solution!
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[almaink]

Quark does it to so thats not a solution.

[sahnapiranha]

Originally Posted by almaink

Quark does it too so that's not a solution.

It does?

Huh--must be a new feature in version seven.

(j/k)

[almaink]

Every page-layout app does it they always have always will nothing new about version 7. If you are going to paginate, and unless you work in prepress I don't recommend you do as it the printers responsibility IMO, you must be sure nothing is going across the gutter. A few Applescripts do have a fix feature thats supposed to take care of items crossing the gutter but it's not fool proof.