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STEP 4: FLIPPING AND MOVING PAGES
Once you have the pages arranged, you can rearrange pages if necessary and
decide whether pages need to be flipped (head-to-head, for example).
• To flip pages, click the
Page Flipping tool in the Layout pane. Click the
thumbnails to flip them; in
4-Up Standard, 4-Up Work & Turn, or 4-Up
Work & Tumble,
you can flip the top and bottom sets of thumbnails separately.
• To rearrange pages, click the
Page Sequence Numbering tool in the Layout
pane. If you select None for the binding, click each thumbnail to display a
menu. The menu lets you arrange the pages in any way necessary for the job.
If you select
Saddle Stitch or Perfect Bound, click a thumbnail to specify the
location of page 1. Page 1 must remain a right-facing page.
STEP 5: SPECIFYING BLEED
The value in the Bleed field (Layout pane Þ General area) specifies the amount
of space used to allow page elements to print beyond the edge of the trimmed
page. Enter a value between zero and the smallest margin. The value you enter
in the
Bleed field affects only the face of a printer flat (the top, bottom, and
outside page edges). To control the bleed between pages for
Saddle Stitch or
Perfect Bound publications, refer to Crossover.
STEP 6: SPECIFYING CREEP
The value in the Creep field (Layout pane Þ General area) specifies the amount
of space necessary to accommodate paper thickness and folding in
Saddle
Stitch
or Perfect Bound publications. Enter a value between –144 pt and 144 pt.
For
Saddle Stitch publications, the value specifies the distance contents move.
For
Perfect Bound publications, the value specifies the distance pages move
relative to the spine.
The Bleed and Creep fields in the General area.
HOW CREEP WORKS
Quark Imposer considers the “cover” of the final piece to be the outermost
printer fl
at while the “centerfold” is considered to be the innermost printer flat.
The term “sheet” is used to represent two printer flats — the front of the sheet
and the back of the sheet. The “creep increment” is calculated by dividing the
user-supplied creep value by the total number of sheets minus one.
For example, a 16-page PDF file could yield eight printer flats, or four sheets. The
front of the first sheet consists of the first printer flat (pages 16 and 1) while the
back of the first sheet consists of the second printer flat (pages 2 and 15). For the
sake of this discussion, if the user-supplied creep value was 24 pts (we realize this
is an extreme) the creep increment is 8 pts per sheet (24 divided by 3).
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS
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