The reason for this is that books do not lay flat when they are opened.
Book margins gutter.
Every page has three outside margins top bottom and side and one inside margin also called the gutter.
Margins ensure your text isn t cut off during manufacturing.
The gutter margin the margin by the spine is therefore smaller than the front margin the margin opposite the gutter so that the two facing blocks of text are close together and the space to the outside of them is greater.
Inside gutter margins outside margins no bleed outside margins with bleed 24 to 150 pages.
Margin size depends on page count and on whether you have elements that bleed.
0 625 15 9 mm at least 0 25 6 4 mm at least 0 375 9 4 mm 501 to 700 pages.
Set your page size before you set your margins.
And make sure these settings apply to whole document at the bottom by selecting that in the dropdown.
See this chart to find your margin size.
Vice versa for left hand pages.
But in addition to that margin you also want a gutter.
In the pages area set it to mirror margins.
These products lay flat and no.
The inside margin is the left hand margin on a right hand page.
0 375 9 6 mm at least 0 25 6 4 mm at least 0 375 9 4 mm 151 to 300 pages.
Type the size for the top bottom inside and outside margins in the relevant fields.
Here are some of the jobs margins have to do.
This creates a gutter where the two pages join.
This process will cause a curve of the pages coming from the spine when the book is open.
However one of your margins will need to be bigger than the others and that is the inside margin otherwise known as the gutter.
The gutter is used if you are going to have your book spiral bound.
So yes you have a half inch margin on the left and the right to have white space to keep your book easy to read.
The pages have to bend out from the spine.
Adjacent inner margins of facing pages when book is open.
The top margin is smaller than the bottom margin which is the largest of all.
This is like a no man s land area where no text will appear.
Provide room for the reader to hold the book comfortably show the entire type block area easily without disappearing into the gutter see below give a feeling of openness making the book inviting to read providing space for running heads or running.
A gutter is the section of the page that leads into the binding of perfect bound books and hard cover books.
The outside margin is the right hand margin on a right hand page.
Gutter the inner margin of the leaves of a bound book.
Set the margins as 0 76 on the top bottom and inside and 0 5 on the outside.
So what is a gutter margin.
Then set the gutter as 0 13.
These two products have binding types that are clamped and held together with glue.