Create bleed

How can I open a pdf file in photoshop and add a 1/4" bleed without changing the size of the pictures and text in the file?
The colors are solid around the edge part that I need to pull out for the bleed. ??????

1) it is not typically wise to open a PDF file in Photoshop as you will rasterize vector data into mushy raster graphics. Avoid Photoshop for this.
2) you might be able to place the PDF file in InDesign and then scale a copy of it to 105% and place that in the background.

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Any script to automate stretching PDF to create bleeds?

Hi everyone!
I work for a Direct Mail company and we constantly get pdf's from clients that have color and artwork going to the edge but the artwork doesn't have any bleeds. When this happens, I usually place the pdf(usually 8.5" x 11") in a new InDesign document, copy each page, paste it over the original, shrink the new pasted layer to 1/8" wide and then use the Free Transform tool to expand it to 1/4" so it adds bleeds for a new pdf(which is 8.75" x 11.25" with crop marks and bleeds). And then do this for each side. If there are a few pages, it isn't a big deal but lately we are getting 20+ page pdf's and it is taking a lot more time to create. So is there a script that will automate this? Or one that will add crop marks and bleeds to an existing PDF? Unfortunately some of the documents have text going almost to the edge so I couldn't just take the pdf, expand it, and re-export it. Thanks for any help!
Adam

Bob, if I take the original pdf with text close to the edge, upsize it to the size with bleeds, and then fill the frame, it will take the text that was close to the edge and then expand it and the text would be in the area that is trimmed after it is printed and cut. Here is an example of what I usually do to 'add bleeds'. The blue stroke is the original image. I copy and paste it, resize and then stretch just the edge so that most of the information stays in the same place but only the edges are stretched to 'add bleeds'.
SReigel, we do have the policy to send us correct artwork and explain to the client how to do it but some are provided artwork from elsewhere and have no way to adjust it. If they have the original artwork file created in an Adobe program, Publisher, etc, we can take those files and reset it for print but most of our clients don't have the original design files or were given the files for print by another person who didn't create it so that is why I have to adjust them for print.

Creating bleed at edge of page

I have a picture on a page that I need to overlap ('Bleed") with the edge of the page so that it can be cut properly at the printers without creating a white line. Any clues?

The ability to bleed or print to the edge of the page is usually a function of the printer rather than the software you are using to create the printed material.
If your printer won't print to the edge of the page using its setting then try either setting the paper size to a custom size slightly larger than the paper you are using - e.g. create a custom paper size of 8.75" x 11.25", fill the page with your picture and print on 8.5 x 11 paper.
Or print on a smaller size of paper.
Or convert the file to a PDF and have the print shop do both the printing and the cutting.
Good luck,
Terry

CS5 Illustrator - trying to create bleeds for a pdf?

Hello:
I am in CS5 Illustrator and I am setting up a greeting card for press. In the same document I set up two pages for the front and back. Two panels for each page. I put 1/8" bleeds. How do you have the bleeds show up in the pdf? I know how to do it in InDesign but in Illustrator is it done differently. I can make trim marks but no bleeds show up, I even specified document bleeds in the pdf dialog box. Do you have to make the page bigger to compensate for the bleeds.
Thanks in advance.

File >> Document Setup
Then when you make the pdf keep use Marks and Bleeds >> Bleeds >> Use Document Bleed Settings checked

How do I create a bleed for an irregular shaped vector?

I am trying to make stickers. I have created a few images (vectors), added cutlines but i have no idea how to add a bleed to the outer edge of the image to prevent "white space" when the printer cuts it out.
I am using CS2 and i am a noobie.
Please can someone point me in the right direction so i can send these images to the printer.
Thanks
Deb

It is most certainly a "normal thing to do" and from the sound of your description of the project, you definitely need to do it.
Creating bleeds for die cut (or plotter cutting) is, in principle, the same thing as building bleeds for rectangular trims: your artwork has to extend beyond the cut by an amount greater than the accuracy variance in the cutting.
Just as you would build bleed for each differently-colored object that contacts an ordinary stright trim, you do the same for each differently-colored object that contacts the die-cut or knife cut. The most expedient way to "extend" an object for a bleed depends on the object. It may be simplest to do it using an offset path command. (I usually don't; offset path offsets all the way around the whole path; it has no idea which parts of a path are on the page and which parts contact the trim.) It may be simplest to just move a few anchorpoints.
I don't know why anyone is complicating a question about basic bleeds with the issue of trapping. Trapping is a separate issue, and may not even apply, depending on how the item will be printed, which you have not stated. You say the artwork will be printed on white vinyl. Nowadays, that typically means it will be printed by a composite color device (vinyl printer/plotter), not by an offset printing press or silkscreen. Trapping is only a problem when component colors are separated and printed by individual "hits" on the printing device.
JET

How do you make the color bleed over the margins for a cover

Hello,
We currently do our covers in InDesign but want to move them into our FrameMaker book file. There is a block of color at the top of the cover that we want to go to the edge of the cover. How do you set it up so that the color bleeds about 1/8" past the edge of the paper so that the printer can properly cut the cover without any white on the edges?
It's an 8-1/2 x 11 book, created with Frame 9 on a Windows XP Professional.
Thanks,
Tim

How are you creating the PDF and which version (including point release) of FM are you using?
To create bleeds, you were on the right track positioning the graphic off the page by a negative amount. However, you don't increase the size of the page in your FM layout, you output to a larger sheet size (i.e. pick this in your AdobePDF printer setup or the Page Size in your SaveAsPDF options ). Unfortunately, you won't be able to preview this in FM. Look to your PDF to see what's going on. Note: SaveAsPDF *always* applies a crop value equal the FM defined page-size layout; in Acrobat for PDFs created via the SaveAsPDF route, you have to turn off the crop to see the entire media box with the bleed values.
If you're using FM10, make sure that you're patched to the latest 10.0.2p419 version. This is the only version that makes reasonable CMYK PDFs for print production, all prior FM10 & FM9 versions are quite buggy (for CMYK) and are not recommended for the CMYK route (you have to use the Convert CMYK to RGB option in this case and fix up in Acrobat or with third-party tools like the Enfocus PitStopPro plug-in for Acrobat).

Save for Web Image Is Offset

I have AI CS4 on Windows Vista and have created an artboard that is 220 px wide and 88 px high. I then added a rectangle of the same dimensions as a background to cover the entire artboard. When I export it to Save for Web and Devices, the resulting image show a white boarder on the left. If I shift my background 1 px to the left on the artboard so that it shows white space on the right and overlaps on the left, it looks fine on the Save for Web export. Is there some set up that I'm missing to get a WYSIWYG conversion?
Thanks,
Curt

If you are trying to save as a jpeg, gif or png then you are rasterizing the vector graphic, which is likely the case of the 'white' space.
To get around this, try creating bleed of 2 pixels all the way around the artboard and then use the crop tool to crop the image to 220x88.
An alternative to this would be to open the file saved for the web in Photoshop or Fireworks and fill in the white/blank space.

Invisible lines showing and Disappearing in InDesign when Printed

This problem does not happen in Adobe CS4 products and I recently switched to Adobe CS6 indesign and photoshop. I keep running to many problems (well its more than when I worked with CS4 products).
I'm asking this because clients keep sending me horrible 72 dpi rasterized files. How do I deal with it if the program deals with this differently?
I know this has been asked before I think but what if the files are coming from the client's side?
The left circle is the original pdf file the client has sent me. The right circle is when I placed the file in Indesign CS6.
Except that the logo is rasterized. The rest is vector.
The left is rasterized, exported from indesign using 100 dpi. Usually my customers send in files that are 72 dpi. And then I have to manually create bleeds on them. The right is an exported pdf.

What are you expecting? The original files you're getting are not suitable for print.
that said, how are you outputting these files?

...last question : what's the best quality codec for exporting a clip?

I have to export a Motion clip with the best possible quality (with no loss of image or compression whatsoever).
what do you guys suggest? H264? or is there any better codecs? (I noticed that H264 create 'bleeding stains' on gradient backgrounds...)
thats all, many thanks

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Peter

Color Space Question For Printing

I have multiple newbie questions so please bear with me
Normally when working in photoshop, I tend to use the RGB color space as I need the use of filters and other effects not available in CMYK, Now when printing flyers E.g A4 Sized I tend to save the PSD in RGB (Without Flattening) and then importing it into a CMYK color space in illustrator and then exporting as a PDF, as illustrator gives me the option to create bleed as well as trim marks, I have never exported a PDF from photoshop as it always gives me the option of photoshop pdf which is kinda heavy.
My question is, is the process I use okay for printing? or do I first need to convert it into CMYK? or just export from photoshop itself? Also, the other reason I use illustrator is if i'm making a business card with two sides, since text is better exported from illustrator.
Could anyone tell me a simpler process for creating for digital print? Especially if I need to do some items in illustrator as well.

>> images are still a bit washed out with a warmish/ yellow cast to them, particularly, my black and white images
Here is a simple test to help evaluate if the monitor profile is reasonably good:
Open a RGB file in Photoshop (flatten if not already flattened).
Press M key> Drag a selection> Com+Shift+U (Desaturate).
Com+Z (to toggle back and forth).
If the unsaturated selection looks neutral you've got a reasonably fair monitor profile.
If selection has color casts (not neutral) -- you have a bad monitor profile
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Here is a simple test to help evaluate if a bad monitor profile is whacking out your Photoshop color:
Monitors/Displays (control panel)> Color> highlight AppleRGB or sRGB (don't run Calibrate), quit and reboot.
If the Photoshop colors are back under control, then the problem was most surely a bad monitor profile go back into Monitors/Displays> Color and Calibrate a good profile highlight (load) sRGB, or preferably, the monitor's OEM profile as a starting point.
If you are using a puck, it is likely defective; or your monitor hardware is the culprit...search it on Google by model number

How to straighten multiple images without cropping?

Hi, I have several archived documents that I would like to straighten, about 1000. I have photoshop elements 8 at home, and photoshop cs5 at work.
When I use the straighten and crop feature in photoshop cs5, it crops it far too short and I lose text. I can't find just a plain automatically straighten feature in cs5. I don't have time to use the ruler tool on each one. Is there a way to change the settings on the straighten and crop function so that it just straightens? Or at least leaves a border of pixels?
Elements has an automatically straighten tool, and it works great, but I can't figure out how to set an action to apply it to all of the items, or even just to use a keyboard shortcut to save time.
Any help would be great, I don't want to have to do each one individually, and each one is crooked by a different margin

What you describe is precisely how Epson default expansion to create bleed works, down the 1/8 inch amount. What printer are you using?
On my Aritsan 50, the dialogue to prevent this looks like the following image:
On my other Epson -- R1900, the dialogue is reached by selecting Page Layout Settings.
Ernie

Converting cs4 idd to pdf

I am trying to export a cs4 idd file to a pdf. However, it is reducing the pages so that about a 1/4 inch of the body of the right hand page creeps onto the left hand page. I created a gutter of 2" but that doesn't seem to have helped.
I am also trying to create bleeds which are showing up on my computer screen, but are not converting into bleeds when I create a pdf.
help!

Trim size is the finished size of the page. That's the size the document should be set up. Bleed is in addition to this dimension, and is set up properly using the "more options" button in the document setup dialog to show bleed and slug fields.
Your sample PDF was larger than letter. If you included an inside bleed or slug amount in the export, what you are seeing is the area on the other half of the page that is within that bleed or slug allowance. To do a true inside bleed you would need to "split" the psread so that each page is dispalyed on its own (and that's a different topic). Under most circumstances an inside bleed is not required (I'm going to catch flack for saying that), unless you are perfect binding or similar and there are elements that touch or cross the center spine. You should always include trim marks if you are including bleed or slug in your PDF.

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.

Is there a script to create a button to set an activated frame to document size + bleed?

Please see my question above. Thanks in advance!

Here is a script that creates a script that creates a button that sets an activated frame to document size + bleed.
Why do you need a script to create a button that sets an activated frame to document size + bleed? You might as well have a script that sets an activated frame to document size + bleed, because you already need to double-click the script that sets an activated frame to document size + bleed and so there is no need to show another button that you can click to set an activated frame to document size + bleed in that.
theScript = 'var w = new Window("dialog", "Reframe");\n'+
'w.b = w.add("button", undefined, "Click me!");\n'+
'w.b.onClick = function(){ w.close(3); };\n'+
'if (w.show() == 3)\n'+
'{\n'+
'dp = app.activeDocument.documentPreferences;\n'+
'app.selection[0].geometricBounds = [\n'+
'app.layoutWindows[0].activePage.bounds[0]-dp.documentBleedTopOffset,\n'+
'app.layoutWindows[0].activePage.bounds[1]-dp.documentBleedBottomOffset,\n'+
'app.layoutWindows[0].activePage.bounds[2]+dp.documentBleedInsideOrLeftOffset,\n'+
'app.layoutWindows[0].activePage.bounds[3]+dp.documentBleedOutsideOrRightOffset];\n'+
writeFile = new File (app.activeScript.parent+'/new script.jsx');
writeFile = writeFile.saveDlg( 'Save script', File.fs == "Windows" ? "Script:*.jsx,All files:*.*" : function(file) { return file instanceof Folder || (!(file.hidden) && file.name.match(/\.jsx$/i)); } );
if (writeFile != null && writeFile.open("w"))
writeFile.encoding = "utf8";
writeFile.write (theScript);
writeFile.close();

Creating a church anniversary 36-page booklet/program with full bleed.

I am fairly new to CS4 InDesign but would like to create a 36-page Church Anniversary Booklet/Program with full bleed. The size of the program should be 8 1/2 x 11. I probably will need to print it on a larger size and get it cut. (1) How can I create this type of booklet? (2) What size paper should I use to get the full size of 8 1/2 x 11 (I cannot have white edges around the program). (3) How should I set up the bleed, slug? (4) Should I use facing pages. (5) I would like to use the same background on all sheets. Thanks.

Shortknocker wrote:
What does " two-page imposed spreads" mean?
If you take two sheets of 8.5x11 paper in a stack, turn them so that the long edge is on top and you fold the left side over the right, it will look like a book in standard reading position. If you write a 1 on the front page, open the book and write 2 on the second, 3 on the third and so on, your last page will be page 8. If you pull the outside sheet and look at the page numbers, you will find page 8 on the left, with page 1 on the right, and on the back you will find page 2 on the left, with page 7 on the right.
Those pairs of pages (8 & 1, 2 & 7) are two-page spreads (pages that are beside each other), but specifically, they are imposed spreads, also known as printer's spreads. The position of a page within a printer's spread will vary, depending on how many pages there are. For example, a 16 page book will have page 16 to the left of page 1, and page 15 to the right of page 2.
When you compose the book, page three will be to the right of page 2, in what we call reader's spreads. You will want to compose in reader's spreads, and your print provider will impose the book into printer's spreads. It's important to talk to your printer before you set up the book, so that you will know what is needed.

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