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Here's the difficulty. The call for bleed has to be included in the Postscript stream, or it's not there to work with. If the bleed is a solid color, then that's a piece of cake to add in PitStop, or by other means. Someone earlier suggested that one could open an image in Photoshop and basically fool around with it (enlargen it to bleed). This could be problematic if by enlarging the photo composition is destroyed (like someone head's cut off). Bottom line. What's the simplest way to fix the problem? It might be best to go back and teach the producer how to add the bleeds rather than screw around with the PDF. Rich -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Lewis Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 8:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF] Working with Bleed in PDF documents The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ Can Pitstop be configured to automatically handle bleed? _________________________________________ David Lewis President Lucid Dream Software, Inc. V 847-202-8424 www.luciddream.com� www.ontimeproof.com� www.trapping.org "Clearly a Better Solution" _________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jacob, Joselito Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF] Working with Bleed in PDF documents The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ It is also an inherent problem with acrobat that if you work with bleeds you basically have no options. The distiller does not address this in its preference. Not that I know of. Once you distill, say an 8.5x11 doc w/4 side bleeds, you end up with an 8.5x11 PDF that images to its edges but does not print out with bleeds. Maybe the next version Adobe? What I can do in the meantime if I'm lucky is copy and paste everything off that doc and paste it on to a larger doc, say 11x17 and start my work. I grab my handy dandy Pit Stop Pro and click on elements that need to be enlarged. This works best with solids. Screened elements are a bit trickier. JJ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rich Sprague Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF] Working with Bleed in PDF documents The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ Each program has it's own way of handling bleeds through the printing and/or exporting function, and has nothing to do with Acrobat job options. Rich -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Lewis Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 8:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF] Working with Bleed in PDF documents The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ Do you provide PDF Creation setups for your clients, and if so do you take this issue into consideration? Is it possible to set the PDF Creation options so that Bleed is automatically taken care of? What settings would you use for this? _________________________________________ David Lewis President Lucid Dream Software, Inc. V 847-202-8424 www.luciddream.com www.ontimeproof.com www.trapping.org "Clearly a Better Solution" _________________________________________ -----Original Message----- __________________________________________________________________ A. People forget to add the bleed in their original file. B. People forget, or don't know how, to turn on and include the bleed amounts in the print dialog box. C. People turn on the bleeds, but forget to print on a custom paper size that allows for the bleeds. D. People don't turn on the crops. E. Some export programs (like CorelDraw) include the bleeds and/or crop information, but when the PDF is opened, it looks like it is 8.5 x 11. One needs to go into the crop tool to change the page margins so the bleeds will show. Rich To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
