Creating a 1/8 bleed?

I am creating a document i pages (which I will export to a pdf) for printing and the printer has asked me to create a 1/8 bleed. Is this possible in pages? If so any pointer would be helpful.

Pages does not have bleeds.
You will have to manually create both bleeds and crop marks by increasing your page size by 3/8" on all sides.
Then use guides to mark out:
1. The actual page area
2. The "Bleed" which will be 1/8" outside that. I assume you know what bleeds are and how to use them.
3. Adjust all your margins, headers footers etc to allow for the extra page area.
4. Draw fine (0.25 pt) crop mark lines pointing perpendicularly to all the corners but 0.05" short of touching them.
5. Select all the crop marks and make them 100% CMYK
When you create the pdf to send to the printer select:
+Menu > File Print > PDF (button bottom left corner) > Save as PDF-X+
You will be asked to choose a location for the file and give it a name.
The PDF-X file is far from perfect but about as close as you are going to get to a print ready file.
I hope that the job you are printing is not crucial because the results you get will not necessarily be professional. Avoid drop shadows, reflections and placing text over bitmaps. These will all be at a poor 72 dpi resolution.
In addition to the crop marks I would add in the trim area printer's slugs and targets to assist production.
Peter
PS if you think this is all a little clumsy and unnecessary in a modern DTP application have a look at *Swift Publishing* by Belight Software which will not fix all of the problems but will give you bleeds and crop marks for starters.

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Bit of a strange one, this. In Photoshop CS6, whenever I create a smart object with the intention of resizing it, whenever I shrink it, where one flat colour collides with another, it creates a really ugly "bleed" effect -- kind of the same effect you get when you take a small image and try to make it larger:
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Also in CS6, Free Transform now has an independent control for interpolation when pixel layers are targeted. It is set to Bicubic Automatic by default, so set that to plain Bicubic, too.

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Any script to automate stretching PDF to create bleeds?

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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!
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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.

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'+
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if (writeFile != null && writeFile.open("w"))
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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.
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I created a magazine using a IDD template including bleeds. When I exported to make a PDF, it cut off part of the document when uploading for printing. When I incude bleeds, it makes the document too big for printing. I need help :)

I created a magazine using a template including bleeds. When I exported to make a PDF, it cut off part of the document when uploading for printing. When I incude bleeds, it makes the document too big for printing. I need help

eehenry wrote:
It is a problem with a secondary provider, "mag cloud" .
Right, so to advise you we'd need to know the particulars of MagCloud's spec for your project; format, trim size, bleed, etc.
It's doubtful that anything happened "when uploading for printing," so long as you were uploading a PDF, as opposed to the native InDesign file. Did the PDF look right to you before uploading?

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.
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