Bleed marks in pages

I am making an ad in Pages. It seems like I can't make bleed marks in the document but I can define non printable area. Is there any difference? And after I have set the non printeble area, how do I know where it is on the document? I can't see the non printeble area in the document.
I would appriciate some help and advice.
Thanks!

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Hello all,
I have been searching the web and have tried numerous things but I can't seem to solve this problem. In InDesign crop marks and bleed marks are printed in "Registration" color. I understand why that is needed for plate printing. However I am laser printing and I need those marks to be in "Black" color. I have tried to edit the cropmark script by changing "Registration" to "Black" on the line with myRegColor. I have tried changing the printer setting to "Pure Black". However I can't get the crop and bleed marks to print in "Black". I have been on various websites and while there are people asking the question I haven't found a answer that works. I have searched this community as well but haven't found an answer that I understand. Before I manually make crop marks I want to make sure I am not missing something completely obvious.
With laser printing there is a different charge for color and B&W. The fact that the crop marks are coming in as color and not black means B&W pages are counted as color in the printing cost. I have tested the same docuement (which was just one page full of sample black text) with and without crop/bleed marks. When the document is printed without the marks the printer clicks as a B&W page. When it is printed with the marks the printer click as a color page.
I am creating the doc in InDesign and exporting to Acrobat for printing. I am using Creative Cloud so I think I have the most up to date version of InDesign.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
-TS

With CS6 or later you can export to grayscale and in that case the crops will be black only. Like this:
You should set your Appearance of Black to Rich black otherwise 100% black CMYK might export to something less than 100% grayscale. When you check the PDF in Acrobat set the simulation profile to the grayscale profile you export to.

Printing a booklet, my pdf includes the bleed within the page size

I produce a 24 page document, and have just tried to used the print booklet command to create the printer spreads, rather than imposing manually, printing to a PDF.
However the final pdf pages are set to A3, including the bleed marks, and this means that the final printed product ends up being smaller than A3 after cropping.
When doing this manually, I had a PDF preset I was using. I have found a way to get that preset into the Booklet setup, but the final pdf page size is still too small.

Under page scaling in the print dialog select none and choose a bigger page size. Don't set final pdf pages to A3 as this leaves no room for trims....

Creating crop marks in pages

Lo all.
I'm using pages to make a 24 page booklet. To send this to printers they all require 'crop marks' and 'bleed'. Is there any way of creating crop marks in pages?
I can't find any way of doing itbut it seems staggering that it wouldn't be able to generate these.
What am I missing people!!
Thanks,
dean.

Pages can't generate crop marks natively (and I know of no other $40 application that does). If you are starting a new project, you can set up a custom template to do this. In Page Setup, set the page size to a custom size larger than the page you need (e.g., a few centimetres larger horizontal and vertical than the final page size). In the new page that appears, set the page guides to mark the border of the document, then set the crop and bleed marks where specified by your printer.
Note that this won't really help if the document already exists, since changing the page size may mess up existing formatting.

Remove bleed marks from a PDF with creation tool unknown.

I have a PDF that was given to me for use on our wensite. This PDF contains bleed marks that I want to remove, is it possible to remove these using Acrobat 9 without cropping the pages?

Perhaps with the redaction tool.
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Fit to bleed marks - possible?

I have a about 75 images placed in InDesign that have been slightly enlarged and now I need to bring them back to fitting to the bleed marks (or the red line) proportionally.
And the second half of my project has the opposit problem. 76 images that need to be enlarged to fit to the red line.
I've been doing this by hand and dragging the blue frame to touch the red line then hitting fill frame proportionally, but it's taking a long time with so many images. Is there a faster way? Thanks!

The client doesn't have to see anything that extends past the edge of the page.
The won't see it when it's printed - so they don't need to worry about it.
I don't understand that they want to see as much of the image as possible? Are you giving them the Indd files or supplying a pdf for proof?
And I don't know how you'd go about resizing everything to fit exactly the bleeds - except by each individually.

How to only show bleeds on certain pages?

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I have a few pictures in a publication, and I only need to see the bleed on those pages. However, when I select bleed option under document setting, the bleed appears on every single page. How to show bleeds only on the pictures pages? Thank you very much!
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simon1116 wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have a few pictures in a publication, and I only need to see the bleed on those pages. However, when I select bleed option under document setting, the bleed appears on every single page. How to show bleeds only on the pictures pages? Thank you very much!
Simon
You can fake a bleed by drawing a rectangle on a non-printing layer. Show or hide the layer as needed. Because showing/hiding a layer affects all pages in a document, to show one or another fake bleed independent of others, place each on its own layer. Although in InDesign CS5's Layers panel, you can select objects on layers and show or hide them individually, it's tricky to figure out which is which; it's easier to place each fake bleed rectangle on its own layer.
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How do I change the red bleed marks once I've created a file in illustrator?

How do I change the red bleed marks around the art board once I've created a file in illustrator?

If you are talking about changing the size of the bleed, just go to File > Document Setup.

Indesign/pdf: bleed marks for cover

I am trying to save a pdf book cover file with bleed marks before I send it to the printer. My cover is 6x9.25 with .125 bleeds, so I made an indesign document with those specifications, placed my photoshopped cover which included the bleed (6.25x9.5) and it looked fine--the border around the 6x9.25 portion was correct. I exported it to a pdf, though, having clicked the bleed marks box and the use document bleed settings box, and the pdf that resulted was the 6.25x9.5 cover with a white border around it and the bleed marks set in this white border so that one would trim just to the edges of the 6.25x9.5 box, not .125 inside this box on each side, or 6x9.25. That's obviously not helpful. I don't know what to do. I also tried making the original indesign document 6.25x9.5 with the bleeds set at 0, and then adding the bleeds in the export stage, which put them in the white border again, but this time so that there would be a .125 white border around the whole 6.25x9.5 image. Thanks for any help. I've looked all over the internet and from all I can see it should be really simple. I just can't make it work.

First: The crop marks that they are asking for are little lines that mark the edges of the final document.
InDesign and Illustrator have document options that allow you to set up the bleed and slug (like a second bleed with printer information). Photoshop does not have this option. InDesign and Illustrator allow you to select an option to print a document with the bleed and crop marks. You will not be able to set up these in the PDF either, because the PDF will put the crop marks at the edges of the bleed, not the final document.
You will probably need expand the size of the photoshop document and add crop marks manually. The crop marks should look like a corner, situated so that the point touches the outer most corners of the document.
Or you could place the images in InDesign and export PDFs from InDesign with the correct crop marks. You will have to set the document size to the actual size of the business card and the bleed to the width of the the bleed. Then place the Photoshop file centered in the InDesign document. Next you will export the document as a PDF, be sure to turn on "crop marks" under "Marks and bleeds" on the left hand side.

Custom bleeds for each page?

i changed the size of a page using the page tool to be smaller than other pages in the same document. but the bleed is huge?
i set the bleed to be .5 all around and it looks good on all the pages except this one
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Eric Greenfield wrote:
i set the bleed to be .5 all around and it looks good on all the pages except this one
can i set custom bleeds for each page?
First, .5 whats? .5 inches, for example would be huge for normal work, .5 pica or cm a bit large, and .5 mm or pt exceptionally small. and essentially useless.
And bleed guides are set as a document level attribute, so one size fits all pages. That actually is a good thing, by the way. Bleed is there to provide a buffer against misalignment in cutting. The size you need is based on the sheet-to-sheet registration capabilities of the printing equipment and the accuracy of the cutter and skill of the operator, and it doesn't change with the page size.

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A colleague of mine asked me a question I could not figure out...
In CS5.5 and below, if he had a document that let's say had a .5" bleed and he printed the document at 50%, the bleed marks would also scale in proportion and be .25".
Now in CS6, the Bleed and Trim marks stay the original size/location no mater what the document is scaled?
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babs

I can get crop marks by using the "Print" menu and printing to PDF. My question is: How do you handle bleeds when printing crop marks in the "Save" or "Print" stage? Aren't the crop marks placed at the file extents?

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Everytime I try to save out a PDF (Printable, not Interactive) and tick trim or bleed marks, Indesign just crashes.
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I have a print deadlien Monday so I really need this to work.
It used to work fine in CS6.
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I recently had the same problem. I would try to publish and the program would lock up and crash.
I discovered it just to be a small bit of code I imputed wrong for an action. I had a comma instead of a quote before one of my commands.
Example... I had 'GoTo" instead of "GoTo"
I fixed the error and all worked fine!
But I wonder why such a small error would crash the program instead of flagging the error when I attempted to publish? That feature worked great in Flash!!
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I created my file in Photoshop but then I had to transfer it to Illustrator to create trim and bleed marks. I managed to add crop marks by creating a rectangle, placing it in the middle of my picture and selecting object/crop area/create.
However, when I try converting my file to PDF, none of my marks can be seen. I also tried setting everything up in print dialog box but nothing works. I am creating a file for commercial printing. I am using Photoshop and Illustrator CS3. I really need help with this. Any ideas on how to solve it would be great!!!
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Thanks. I did try it the other way as well, but then my crop marks show out of artboard for some reason and I need to adjust them manually, hence changing the trim size, which I don't want. If I don't adjust them to appear on artboard then they don't show in PDF. That happens when I use the rectangle in trim size.
However, when I only use the command that you mentioned without creating a rectangle first then my crop marks show in the middle of my artboard, in other words, if it was to be trimmed to the right size, the crop marks would be seen on the printout after trimming. I hope this makes sense, but I've been trying to do this for two days now and I am losing my mind.

Can you save your crop/bleed marks as well as your slug when saving your Indeign document as an eps

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Let me guess: Your printer asked you to do this, right? Your printer is living in the 1990s and is probably trying to place this in a QuarkXPress file. And I'll suggest you should run, not walk, to find another more modern printer!
But, if you have to do it, you could export as a PDF file (including the marks, bleeds and slug). Then in Acrobat, choose File > Export (Acrobat 9 Pro) or File > Save as > Other Formats > Encapsulated PostScript (Acrobat X Pro).

How do I take off the bleed marks from a pdf image?

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Please see this post from the Acrobat Users forum: https://answers.acrobatusers.com/How-I-remove-marks-PDF-print-q68070.aspx.
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