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Need help with Indesign

  • 30-03-2010 1:14pm
    #1
    smelltheglove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭


    I have designed a brochure for my brothers business in photoshop. The printer needs the finished brochure in pdf with the bleed marks showing. I have set it all up as a brochure in Indesign. I have exported to pdf ticking to show bleed lines. When I do this the image then has a white border around it with the bleed lines in it and then the finished page but the printer wants the print page to be complete without a border whilst still showing the bleed lines. I have tried every which way to do this and nothing is happening. I am sure if I click for crop lines it will do this but he is specifically requesting bleed lines.

    Any help appreciated.


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  • #2
    Grunya
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭Grunya


    Did you actually set bleed in your page setup?
    Give 3-5mm for bleed.
    If you have an image that spread to the edges of the artwork it should go to the bleed edges. Then export to PDF and tick "use document bleed settings".
    This way you won't have any white edges in your final job.


  • #3
    minikin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,982 ✭✭✭minikin


    Hi stg,

    It's not so much bleed marks they're after as actual 'bleed'
    say your final trim size is an A4 (210mm x 297mm), then your artwork should be 216mm x 303mm (background image etc extending 3mm outside of the trim edge) similarly if it's an A5 page then your artwork should be 154mmx216mm


    Go back to your photoshop file (an unflattened version in which your text is still editable)

    increase your canvas size to doc size+bleed, make sure it's cmyk & 300dpi.

    save your file as a photoshop pdf (we and some other printers would accept this without taking the next step)

    New doc in indesign (final trim size, but specify 3mm bleed on each edge in doc setup),

    place pdf in 'bleed sized' box on each page.

    export as a pdf/x-1a file, specifying 3mm bleed, with colour bars, reg & crop marks offset to 3.5mm (there's no need for bleed marks)

    h.t.h.

    (I'm not going to say you shouldn't have done layout in photoshop b.t.w.) :p


  • #4
    smelltheglove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭smelltheglove


    Thanks minkin.

    I contacted Steve earlier and he was very good to go through it with me, sounds like they are looking for crop marks rather than bleed marks.

    The printer wants 5mm bleed so I'm gyessing I should crop to 220x307mm he said I wouldnt need to but then sure I'd be missing parts of the images that my brother wants to cross over 2 pages.


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