Construction of the backbone in InDesign

I'm building a 40-page document that will require printing on the spine. What is the right way to set up the spinal column of the printer? Coverage is a separate document with back cover on spine left, in the Center and cover right? How calculated the width of the spine? InDesign will do that?

Yes the most simple solution is to create a separate document for the covers with the back on the left and front cover on the right. [If you have inner covers then do not forget to put inside the left front cover and inside back cover right.] You can create it to be a really wide page, twice the width of the inside as well as the spine. When you're this proofing or send to a customer in pdf format, it can be difficult to print using automatic tiling. I create a separate file of coverage and that the size of page to the width of the inside more than half of the spinal column. I then created the two facing pages document. This means that I can easily proof the front and rear covers on separate pages (or create a pdf file). For the final release to the press, the printer can print the file chemically to get two pages side by side.

If you have CS5 you can create pages of different sizes in the same document. So you should be able to add the covers and the spine for you document inner pages.

With respect to the width of the spine: talk to your printer. According to the thickness of the paper and how it is going to bind the document will affect the width of the spine. It would also be able to inform of how he would like in place you to put your covers.

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