setting gutter

[YvonneE]

Trying to use Publisher to publish a book. I need to find a way to set
gutter and it would be great to be able to set mirror margins (as you can in
word). Can this be done in Publisher?

Specifications should look like this:
Leave at least .5" margins on all your pages. Most books will require a
gutter of .2" to .3". A gutter provides a little bit of extra margin on the
spine edge of your pages, making your book easier to read without putting too
much stress on the spine. For coil-bound books, the coils bite about 5/16"
(8mm) on the spine edge, but we would suggest a gutter of 3/8" (9mm). Follow
these directions to set your margins:

Microsoft Word: Choose Page Setup from the File menu, then use the Margins
tab. When adding a gutter, make sure to select Mirror Margins. Apply your
settings to the whole document.

Can it be done?

Thanks
Yvonne

 

[YvonneE]

Ed,
Not sure I under what you mean, but then I didn't really understand what I
was requested to do (and what I posted earlier). Can I use Publisher to print
a book and submit to the publisher based on their requirements as listed?

Thanks much
Yvonne

 

[YvonneE]

Ed,
thanks for your patience - but give it one more try. How do I create it
myself? As the printer won't do it

Thanks
Yvonne

 

[Ed Bennett]

Trying to use Publisher to publish a book. I need to find a way to set
gutter and it would be great to be able to set mirror margins (as you can in
word). Can this be done in Publisher?

You can set margin guides in that format using Arrange > Layout Guides;
however, no automagic feature to leave that amount of blank space is
present in Publisher at the moment.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Not sure I under what you mean, but then I didn't really understand what I
was requested to do (and what I posted earlier). Can I use Publisher to print
a book and submit to the publisher based on their requirements as listed?

Not automatically. You'd have to manually create the gutter yourself. Or
ask the printer to do it on the PDF you supply.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Page setup, booklet, Arrange, layout guides, add the printer's specs to the
inside gutter. Instead of the .5 margin add .375 (3/8), or .875.

 

[YvonneE]

Thanks Mary,
I guess thats what Ed said a bit back, what I'm not following is why that's
not considered automatic.

Thanks again.
Yvonne

 

[Ed Bennett]

Thanks Mary,
I guess thats what Ed said a bit back, what I'm not following is why that's
not considered automatic.

Because that area is supposed to be left blank (or bled into). If you
add that at a late stage in production, Publisher will not move objects
into their correct new positions, so objects on either the right or the
left pages may drop into the gutter. Spread images that span two pages
(e.g. centrefolds) will not automatically be cut into two and placed
either side of the gutter, so you will lose content in the middle,
unless you manually adjust the image.

If the gutter were created automatically, you would be designing your
publication at the printed size, and then Publisher would add the gutter
space into the finished print job, after centrefolds had been split and
such, removing the need to do manually the tasks I mentioned above.

 

[Pluttan]

Hey Ed,
could you set these gutters and whatnot you and YvonneE are talking about
with a Newsletter template and use it for a publishing a book as per the
specificiations ? Just like here I am trying to publish a book for LULU.COM
using Publisher. All help appreciated.

 

[Ed Bennett]

could you set these gutters and whatnot you and YvonneE are talking about
with a Newsletter template and use it for a publishing a book as per the
specificiations ? Just like here I am trying to publish a book for LULU.COM
using Publisher. All help appreciated.

Like I said, gutters can't properly be set in Publisher. If you're not
having any content being split across spreads (e.g. centrefolds), then
you could try the method that Mary suggested earlier in this thread.