Double page spread possible?

Apple claim that it is possible to create a double page spread, ie one photo across two pages. I can find no way to achieve this and internet research basically says it cannot be done. Is there an easy way to do this?

Léonie had it right the theme doesn't matter. You can put the full page template into any theme.
Depends on the theme. Some of the stock themes support this (Art Collection and Journal do for example) and some don't.
The only way to see which do is to open them in turen and look for the layout page like so:
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Hi there smart people who use Aperture.
I'd like to create a double page spread in an Aperture book where the image only goes half way across the second page. Is this possible? I can't seem to enlarge an image so it crosses onto the second page, and I can't seem to reduce the size of an image that's inserted into a double page spread. Hope that makes sense and someone can help.
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Hi again RB - thanks again for helping.
I can't seem to open your page today, but I was able to see it last night and confirm that you can do what I'm trying to do.....lucky guy!
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Thanks!
Good lord, I really had spent a lot of time looking (including browsing FAQs and the full online knowledgebase, and completely overlooked that.
I don't think it was stupidity on my part. I think it needs adding to the help files.
I'm used to referring to it as 'DPS' or 'double page spread', which doesn't feature in Help search, and nothing came of a search for phrases like "two pages" either. I figured it would be in 'Zoom'.
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AddressBook experts are here:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.7_lion#/?tagSet=1386

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