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Does the interior PDF include bleed?

For a normal text interior, no bleed is needed — body text sits inside the page margins and never runs to the edge, so the PDF is built to your exact trim size with a correct TrimBox that printers read. This is exactly what KDP and IngramSpark expect for a prose interior, and it's why the file uploads cleanly.

(Bleed only matters when content deliberately runs off the page edge.)

The exception: full-page pictures past the edge

If your book has full-page pictures, the Pictures settings let you choose how far one reaches — to the text margins, near the trim edge, or past the edge.

Choosing past the edge is what makes this a bleed book, and it applies to the whole file: every page in the interior becomes a bleed page, and you must tell your printer that at upload. KDP and IngramSpark both ask, and getting it wrong is a rejection. If you only have one or two full-page pictures, setting them to reach the trim edge rather than past it usually looks the same and keeps the interior simple.

See How are pictures in my manuscript handled?

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