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Facing Pages: Select this option to make left and right pages face each other in a double-page spread. Deselect this option to let each page stand alone, such as when you plan to print on both sides of a sheet of paper or want objects to bleed in the binding.
After you’ve created a document, you can use the Pages panel to create spreads with more than two pages or force the first two pages to open as a spread.
Master Text Frame: Select this option to create a text frame the size of the area within the margin guides, matching the column settings you specified. The master text frame is added to the A‑Master. (See Using text frames on master pages.)
The Master Text Frame option is available only when you’ve chosen File > New > Document.
Page Size: Choose a page size from the menu, or type values for Width and Height. Page size represents the final size you want after bleeds or other marks outside the page are trimmed.
Orientation: Click Portrait (tall) or Landscape (wide). These icons interact dynamically with the dimensions you enter in Page Size. When Height is the larger value, the portrait icon is selected. When Width is the larger value, the landscape icon is selected. Clicking the deselected icon switches the Height and Width values.
To specify the dimensions of the bleed and slug areas, click More Options in the New Document dialog box. To make the bleed or slug areas extend evenly on all sides, click the Make All Settings The Same icon .
Bleed: The Bleed area allows you to print objects that are arranged at the outer edge of the defined page size. For a page of the required dimensions, if an object is positioned at its edge, some white may appear at the edge of the printed area due to slight misalignment during printing. For this reason, you should position an object that is at the edge of the page of the required dimensions a little beyond the edge, and trim after printing. Bleed area is shown by a red line on the document. You can set bleed area settings from Bleed in the Print dialog box.
Slug: The slug area is discarded when the document is trimmed to its final page size. The slug area holds printing information, customized color bar information, or displays other instructions and descriptions for other information in the document. Objects (including text frames) positioned in the slug area are printed but will disappear when the document is trimmed to its final page size.
Objects outside the bleed or slug area (whichever extends farther) do not print.

Note: You can also click Save Preset to save document settings for future use.

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No screen name said on Feb 21, 2008 at 9:45 AM :

When I save presets this way, they never appear in the list the next time I open Indesign, what am I doing wrong?

Bob - Adobe Writer said on Feb 21, 2008 at 5:34 PM :

I'm not sure. Are you looking in the drop-down list at the top of the dialog box? If presets aren't appearing -- or if other odd tihngs are happening -- try removing preferences, and then try again. If that doesn't work, contact customer support.

dani0731 said on Apr 2, 2008 at 8:52 AM :

If you want color or images to extend out to document edges, what settings to you enter for the bleed? Is it 0, a positive number or negative number?

larryf99 said on Apr 3, 2008 at 8:46 AM :

When I print to our rip I get color bars in yhe slug area but it doesn't state which color is on the separate film as Quark does. Can I set my presets or preferences to do that?

Themis Chapsis said on May 1, 2008 at 9:02 AM :

#Reply to dani0731's question#

For NON facing pages
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Top: 0.125 inch*
Bottom: 0.125 inch*
Left: 0.125 inch*
Right: 0.125 inch*
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(In Europe 3-5 mm)
*at least (ask your print service)

For Facing pages
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Top: 0.125 inch*
Bottom: 0.125 inch*
Outside: 0.125 inch*
Inside**: 0 (zero)
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(In Europe 3-5 mm)
*at least (ask your print service provider)

**This is standard for books, magazines, newspapers, brochures, that is to say for any work that will be imposed and printed as facing pages. There are 2 exceptions to that "rule". The one has to do with the type of binding, and the other with the imposition software that the service bureau / prepress will use.

There are some kinds of work, that we have facing pages, yet we need inside bleed. Example: An agenda with spiral binding.

In regard to imposition software, normally, on a facing pages job, we need asymmetrical bleeds (no inside bleed). But, there are some old versions of imposition programs, that if interpret a pdf with zero inside bleed, are not able to locate / set the page size, they just can't recognize the trim line and ends up to a mesh, changing the geometry of the page, in order to "center" the content
of the pdf.

So, if no one of the 2 above "scenarios" happening (special binding or old imposition software) always use zero inside bleed. If you have to set an inside bleed, use again 0.125 inch as well.