[scribus] perfect bound 3mm gutter question/problem?

[Richard Foley]

Hi Louis,

Thanks for your reply and I believe you understand me correctly. The 6mm is LSI
recommendations for bleed, although the actual cutting error/drift over edge is
expected to be 2mm. The 3mm inside glueing area now sounds like a potential
problem.

If I, in turn, understand you correctly, my pages will have 3mm 'lost' from
their inside edges, because of the glue. If this is the case, then I should
probably have realized this before I started. Every page will be visibly 3mm
thinner than planned, and offset slightly.

Sigh...

-- 
Ciao

Richard Foley

http://www.rfi.net/books.html

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:28:44PM -0400, Louis Desjardins wrote:
> 2012/4/25 Richard Foley <richard.foley at rfi.net>
> 
> > Hi folks,
> >
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> >
> > I'm trying to create a layout in Scribus, to send to LSI. The layout
> > apparently
> > requires a 6mm outside bleed area *and* a 3mm inside 'gutter' for glueing
> > purposes, (because it has to be 'perfect' bound). So I am trying to get
> > this
> > set up:
> >
> >    left page: top=6, left=6, bottom=6, right=3
> >
> >   right page: top=6, left=3, bottom=6, right=6
> >
> > Now, when I try to do this using scribus, inside the document layout, I
> > get the
> > right hand page with a 3mm inside strip, but the left hand page appears to
> > have
> > the 3mm removed from it, or is overlapping. What I actually get is the
> > following flawed arrangement:
> >
> >    left page: top=6, left=6, bottom=6, right=-3 (flawed)
> >
> >   right page: top=6, left=3, bottom=6, right=6 (correct)
> >
> > I hope I'm making this clear. I've attached a sample document with 3 empty
> > pages, so that anyone who might be interested, can have a look to see what
> > I
> > mean in the real document. It's entirely possible that this is a bad
> > configuration on my part, which is simple to fix, and I'd be pleased to be
> > corrected, or have my stupid mistake pointed out to me. Thanks very much in
> > advance for your patience.
> >
> 
> Bleed is the area 'outside' the page, where graphic elements that are meant
> to span to the very edge of the page will have to extend over the page
> area. This portion will be cut away in the late finishing stages. It is
> meant to avoid a white strip of paper that the guillotine would leave there
> if the paper is not exactly cut on the cutting marks. We need a 'buffer',
> this is the bleed.
> 
> The glue area is actually 'inside' the page. It's part of the inner margin
> where there should be no printing element. This area dissolves into the
> inner margin, actually.
> 
> The bleed area is set in the Create New document. By the way, 6 mm is
> pretty large for this as the usual measure for bleed is 3 mm. But 6 mm is
> not bad anyway. There is no field in the application where one could file
> the glue area as this is part of the page itself. It’s only an information
> that is good to know and that is worth mentionning because it can affect
> what you see on the page.
> 
> I hope I got your questionning right. Let me know.
> 
> Louis
> 
> >
> > --
> > Ciao
> >
> > Richard Foley
> >
> > http://www.rfi.net/books.html
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