Print bleed
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- rough
Probably a thick question but brain hasnt turned on yet...
When putting in a 3mm bleed into a document should I increase the dimensions of the document? or keep a 3mm border on the current size?
cheers
- letters0
depends on the program you are building the mechanical in. for example, indesign adds exterior bleed if chosen, while an dillustrator document would need to be sized up.
But in general, the answer is that the document becomes larger to include the blleed, and somewhere in the print specs this is detailed for the press.
- agentfour0
personal choice.
i personally keep the normal doc size, and pull images beyond the page borders, then add bleed when exporting to eps or pdf. indesign btw.
- rough0
cheers, i'm using illy - i usually increase the doc size but I thought there might be another option
Is inDesign better to use for print?
- agentfour0
again it depends what your doing. But inDesign is definately better for documents with lots of copy, multiple pages, images etc. Illy is only really better for small jobs which may be very illustrative. that is of course a very general statement but for the kind of stuff i do personally and at work, i'd use indesign for about 90% of the print jobs i do.
- airey0
if you're using illy you'll have to make the doc bigger as anything outside the doc size doesn't exist outside of illy.
indesign you add bleed outside the document edge using the document settings.