Currently I'm preparing a book for publishing. My printer wants a non-circumferential bleed around the pages, 0.125" at the top, bottom and outer side, but no bleed at the inner side. As far as I have seen until now, this is quite unusual, since a circumferential bleed is required normally.
Starting from this standard case, let us assume a book with a width of 7" and a height of 10". A circumferential bleed of 0.125" may easily be added using the geometry
package and its papersize
, layoutsize
and layoutoffset
option:
\geometry{papersize={7.25in,10.25in}, layoutsize={7in,10in}, layoutoffset={0.125in,0.125in}, ...}
For the case of a circumferential bleed this will work fine; in addition, no changes to the layout will happen, because the layoutsize
is fixed to 7" × 10" (which is the later trim size). My intention is to preserve the later layout of the book, regardless of on what kind of paper size it is printed (paper size > layout size, of course). This is important to me because I need to generate a digital version of the book with exactly identical layout.
But this won't work for a non-circumferential bleed, since — as far as I know — layoutoffset
is not able to distinguish between odd and even pages. For each odd (left) page, I would need
\geometry{papersize={7.125in,10.25in}, layoutsize={7in,10in}, layoutoffset={0.125in,0.125in}, ...}
and for every even page:
\geometry{papersize={7.125in,10.25in}, layoutsize={7in,10in}, layoutoffset={0in,0.125in}, ...}
Thus, I would appreciate any help regarding a possibility of modifying the original layoutoffset
option of the geometry
package to distinguish between odd and even pages — possibly by introducing two new package options layoutoffsetodd
and layoutoffseteven
to the geometry
package (that would be the solution I'm most comfortable with; unfortunetely I'm not able by myself to do that).
Thank you for your help in advance!
bindingoffset=0.125in
andgeometry
will take care of odd and even pages.bindingoffset
parameter by 0.125", but then I would need to change thelayoutsize
parameter, too. My intention is to leave all document margins within the "layout" as they are.