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Binding Spine
Binding Spine in InDesign

Binding Spine in InDesign

Images by E. Bruno
In order to explain how you can set your spine, I have to quickly show you the Page palette... Have a look at this illustration. You can see a 3 pages spread and how it looks like in the Pages palette. You can also see the ruler's origin which in the Preferences was set to Spine.

This is how I have made this spread.

  1. I have opened a new document with the Facing Pages option checked. Page 1 was already there.

  2. I then dragged the 2 pages that you see just under page 1 in the Page palette. At this point the spine was in the middle of the two pages.

  3. I selected the two page spread and then I went to the Page palette menu and I have activated the Keep Spread Together option.

  4. I then added the third page to the two pages spread to make it a three pages spread, to obtain what you see. You can add pages anywhere on the left or on the right of the original two pages spread. You can have a maximum of 10 pages in 1 spread.

View a Flash animation of the above steps.

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