Export with apple E, pick your location, and then click bleed and slug on the left, and use the document settings.Īnd there you go! You’ve set up your bleed and slug for your document.On Sep 25, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Dov Isaacs wrote: The final thing you need to do is make sure the PDF file you are exporting for the printer is set up for your bleed and slug. From here I can make a text box and include the information for the printer.
So I am going to set the slug to 1 inch at the bottom of the page, and as you can see, that gives me another grid line.
Setting up slug is a great way to do that and you can do this in the same document setup box as earlier. Sometimes you might have specific instructions for the printer that you want to include in the document. So now you can see the red bleed line that you should make sure all your graphics go to. This is a made up number, and you’ll have to call your printer to get the exact numbers for their shop. You can setup bleed and slug when you open a new document but to set up a bleed on something you’re already working on go to file > document setup > and expand bleed and slug. So the first thing you want to do is make sure your guides are visible through view > grids and guides > view guides By setting up a bleed and having objects run off the page you are giving the printer some extra area to work with, and you won’t have to worry about white slivers from incorrect cutting. You want this because most printers print your design on paper slightly bigger than your page size and then trim it down. If I press shift W you can see what the page will look like when it is printed. This is necessary when having design work professionally printed.īleed refers to when objects run off the page just like these graphic elements. So today we are going to go over setting up bleed and slug in Adobe InDesign. Hello there, I hope you are having a great week. We post tutorials weekly so subscribe to our YouTube for more catalog design tips. Knowing how to create bleed and slug is essential when creating a catalog or other marketing material that will be printed professionally.
In today’s tutorial we go over how to create bleed and slug for publishing in InDesign.
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