Option
Last updated on
Jun 2, 2026
Find settings for spacing, bleed, creep, signature, and margins for booklet imposition in Adobe InDesign.
When preparing printer spreads for booklet printing, consult these settings to control the physical spacing, bleed areas, and margins that ensure proper folding, binding, and trimming of your final piece.
These options appear in the Setup area of the Print Booklet dialog box (File > Print Booklet) and are available depending on the booklet type selected (2-up Saddle Stitch, 2-up Perfect Bound, or Consecutive).
Spacing and bleed options
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Description |
Available for |
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Space Between Pages |
Specifies the gap between the right edge of the left page and the left edge of the right page in a printer spread. |
2-up Perfect Bound, Consecutive (all except 2-up Saddle Stitch). |
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Bleed Between Pages |
Specifies the amount of space used to allow page elements to encroach into the gap in Perfect Bound printer spreads (also called crossover). Accepts values between 0 and half the Space Between Pages value. |
2-up Perfect Bound only. |
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Creep |
Specifies the amount of space necessary to accommodate paper thickness and folding on each signature. Typically, a negative value to create a push-in effect. |
2-up Saddle Stitch and 2-up Perfect Bound. |
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Signature Size |
Specifies the number of pages in each signature for Perfect Bound documents. If the total page count is not evenly divisible by this value, blank pages are added to the end of the document as necessary. |
2-up Perfect Bound only. |
Space Between Pages notes
For 2-up Perfect Bound documents, if you are using a negative Creep value (creeping in), the minimum Space Between Pages value equals the width of the Creep value.
If you are manually creating signatures, for example, when using different paper stocks in the same document, you can enter a Space Between Pages value to specify a starting creep for spreads that belong to different signatures.
Margin and adjustment options
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Option |
Description |
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Automatically Adjust To Fit Marks And Bleeds |
Lets InDesign calculate the margins necessary to accommodate the bleeds and printer mark options currently set in the Print dialog box. The Margins fields are dimmed when this option is selected, but they reflect the actual values used to fit marks and bleeds. Deselect this option to adjust margin values manually. |
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Margins |
Specifies the amount of space that surrounds the actual printer spread after trimming. To specify individual values for Top, Bottom, Left, and Right, deselect Automatically Adjust To Fit Marks And Bleeds and increase the values to insert extra space beyond the default marks and bleeds. Decreasing the values may result in clipping the marks and bleeds. Available for all booklet types. |
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Print Blank Printer Spreads |
If the number of pages to be imposed is not evenly divisible by the Signature Size value, blank pages or spreads are added to the end of the document. Use this option to determine whether those blank spreads at the end of the document are printed. (Printing other blank pages in the document is controlled by the Print Blank Pages option in the Print dialog box.) |
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