I've recently started using Adobe InDesign CS4. And one of the odd things I've experienced is the inability to create a document that has facing pages, with an inner bleed. In terms of a printing situation typically pages are printed on spreads with a left and right page printed on a single piece of paper, and so the inner sides of the left and right pages shouldn't have bleeds. Problem is it's become more common for publishers to specifically request documents as single pages with equal bleeds on all four sides.
See in this image that there is only a bleed (area between the red line and the edge of the page) on three of the four sides of the facing pages. (Ignore the odd margins on the right page in this image, they are irrelevant.)
Unfortunately there is no feature that adds space between pages and allows for an inner bleed. The closest you get is the Print Booklet function (under the File menu) which will allow you to specify the space between pages. Unfortunately there is no functionality for exporting to PDF with the space between the pages.
So how to overcome the problem? It turned out to be a relatively simple solution: Create the document page with a size that includes the bleed. So if you have a document 9"x7" and need a 0.125" bleed on all four sizes. Set your document size to 9.25"x7.25". To ensure the margins are the same, add the bleed amount to the margins as well. You can create guides (Layout menu) to show where the bleeds are too for convenience.
If you do that, you'll end up with pages looking something like this:
One more note about this. This solution is as easy as it gets to get around this limitation in InDesign. There are other methods (that seem to be the most discussed on forums) to partially resolve the issue by breaking the facing pages up into single pages, but that isn't ideal because then you can't export your document to SWF and PDF as spreads.
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