Printing from Indesign / Acrobat
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- craigatkinson
I normally have stuff printed at the same place but out of curiosity I'm trying it myself.
Printing a booklet from Indesign it seems to print at the correct size but minus the bleed area. Printing from Acrobat it prints with the bleed but reduces the scale by over 10% so it's no longer the correct size.
I don't understand why, when printing from Acrobat the dimensions are reduced to fit the bleed on the page, when it would fit at its correct size.
- horton0
in your print dialogue, turn off page scaling. doh!
- craigatkinson0
but when I turn off scaling [using acrobat] it prints without the bleed area.
- craigatkinson0
sorry, no it does print the bleed area but shrinks it all and adds a big blank page margin
- monospaced0
Don't scale, like horton said.
- Atkinson0
If I turn off scaling the whole doc is reduced by 10mm ish on each edge.
- shouldn't bemonospaced
- something's up with your printer it seemsmonospaced
- is it scaling on print?dummies
- barnold0
Make sure that you have "Use Document Bleed Settings" enabled.
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- craigatkinson0
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- craigatkinson0
When looking at a pdf from indesign, in Acrobat, with crop and bleed marks in two-up continuous display there is a white margin down the centre of each spread. How I remove the margin? [not really a margin, just space I think.
- craigatkinson0
what an arse I am - teaches me not to stay up late trying to fix things with a numb brain.
I'm printing on A4 paper [210mm high landscape. the doc is 200mm with a 3mm bleed top and bottom, 206mm - the printer needs a 5mm margin t+b so has to shrink to include the bleed, or when unshrunk has to not print the bleed, it being outside of the printable area. Damn it!
Still though, how to get rid of the middle margin in PDF spreads?
- monospaced0
Set bleeds for the top, bottom and outside edges, but not the spine/center/inside edge. Sprint as spreads and they should come together.
- monospaced0
I was going to berate you for being such a dunce about this, but then I remembered back to when I was staying up late at night as a young designer, trying to fix things with a a numb brain, and all the mistakes I made along the way. You learn from them.
Now you know that you need paper big enough to accommodate spreads with bleeds and crop marks. You can take this knowledge to the print industry too. I bet that from this day forward you'll take this all into consideration when you type numbers into that New Document dialog, the window that pops up first in InDesign. Have a nice day.
- Shocking how often document setup has nothing to do with actual sizetesmith
- Document setup has EVERYTHING to do with actual size, you noob. :)monospaced
- doesnotexist0
use the booklet feature? create spreads for him, shouldn't have a center bleed or margin.