Add a "View" option "a spread as single pages"
My idea is to create an option in the VIEW panel, to see your spread as single pages, where they are broken apart and still on the left or right, but separated... Here's why...
Amazon is becoming one of the largest online stores around. Their "create space" content uploader is requiring an interior bleed on your books. So if anyone wants to create a facing page spread in indesign, they will need to separate the pages into single pages so that they can work on making sure the graphics cover the bleed area as well as export properly since both pages will be over the center... and if they are exported that way even if they are exported into single pages, the graphic on the front layer wins and gets on both pages, since there's a bleed on both pages.
To do what I need to do now.. I have to click on every spread... then turn off the ability of the spread to shuffle, then separate each right page of the spread out individually. My book is only 24 pages, so that's 12 times.. but this could be soooo much easier if there was just a "view spread as single pages" option.
Thank you.
Candice.
Candice
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Takara Sights commented
Yes please. I am a new user and assumed I'd be able to view a spread as a single page.
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Rob Hutchings
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If I read this correctly, this is actually the inverse of what I would like so I guess both adjustments could be made possible. I would actually like to have my document setup for single pages but have the option under 'View > Screen mode > View as spreads'
But here's the thing, if a document has a bleed setup, for the spreads view to honour that gap and keep it visible between the pages viewed as a spread. That way we can ensure bleeds are setup correctly and print as single pages as needed, or as spreads should that be the case.
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Kenuvis Romero commented
It's pretty ridiculous that in 2024 we still can't set our screens to read spreads one page at a time. It makes the entire editing experience a living nightmare. Why can't we just look at one page at a time? Why is this so difficult?
Adobe, get your head in the game. This is abysmal. How InDesign didn't make this an option in V1 is beyond me. This is LAYOUT software after all. What a joke.
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Leah Green commented
Very useful for book covers to see the front cover seperately
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Mark
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I have long wished that I could view facing pages documents as single pages for the exact reason as explained by Anonymous in their May 27, 2020 comment. It would make entering corrections into books (which are always facing pages) a lot easier.
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Anonymous
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Upvote! This would also make editing for bleeds in spreads much easier in certain layout formats.
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Anonymous
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Agreed. This would be very useful for applying edits from PDF set to single page view (to prevent overwhelm) on same document. Allows for quick switching between the apps with both pages aligned, making for quick location of the edit to be done in ID.
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dom
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Upvote!
View:
Spreads as single pages
Single pages as spreads+ Support for OSX tile window left / right ... 🤯
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Ina
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Vote! I would need the opposite just as much. I would like to view single pages as spreads, maintaining a bleed on the inside for both pages.
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Jon
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I would like to see the opposite also, view single pages as spreads. Similar to Acrobats Document Properties, > Initial View > Page Layout > Two-up (facing) and Two-up (cover page).
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Anonymous
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Agreed! Yes, please!
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Anonymous
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Yes, yes! Would save a ton of scrolling back and forth to be able to VIEW spreads as single pages, vertically aligned, without changing the layout to pages.
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JonHHC
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Agreed, viewing side by side with a pdf of corrections is invaluable when a second screen is not available.
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Mark Reis
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Another reason for viewing spreads as single pages is for screen space management purposes. I work with book publishers and when inputing corrections from a client I have their marked up PDF on one side of the screen and the InDesign doc on the other side of the screen. If I could view the InDesign doc as single pages, like the PDF, there would be a lot less side to side scrolling to do to get to each page.