Keyline Pie » Adobe http://briodesign.com/blog From the mind of graphic designer Danielle Peterson. Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:14:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 There Will Be Blood http://briodesign.com/blog/2008/10/there-will-be-blood/ http://briodesign.com/blog/2008/10/there-will-be-blood/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:47:50 +0000 Danielle http://briodesign.com/blog/?p=105 No, not the movie. (Which had one of the worst endings ever!) Let’s talk bleeds. The term bleed is used for all objects overlapping the border of your document. That is to say, it an element touches the edge of your document, you want it to bleed off the page. The bleed in your document gives the printer some cropping  wiggle room.

Printer National has a useful synopsis on a document bleed, as well as step-by-step instructions for setting them up in your document. Yes, this can be done in Adobe InDesign. It could not be done in Quark. (Not sure if Quark 7 has this capability or not.)

A curious note: Printer National lists 1/8″ as standard bleed dimensions for the United States. I typically setup my documents to have 1/4″ bleed. That way, I can see it.

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