Specifying the bleed area and printers marks in PDF files


    Bleed is the amount of artwork that falls outside of the printing bounding box, or outside the crop marks and trim marks. You can include bleed in your artwork as a margin of error--to ensure that the ink extends all the way to the edge of the page after the page is trimmed or to ensure that an image can be stripped into a keyline in a document.

    The Marks & Bleed area of the Adobe PDF Options dialog box lets you specify the extent of the bleed and add a variety of printers marks to the file.

    All Printer's Marks

    Enables all printers marks (Trim Marks, Registration Marks, Color Bars, and Page Information) in the PDF file.

    Printer Mark Type

    Lets you choose Roman printers marks, or Japanese marks for pages printed in Asian languages.

    Trim Marks

    Places a mark at each corner of the trim area to indicate the PDF trim box boundaries.

    Trim Mark Weight

    Determines the stroke weight of the trim marks.

    Registration Marks

    Places marks outside the crop area for aligning the different separations in a color document.

    Offset

    Determines the distance of all printer's marks from the edge of the artboard. The trim marks are at the edge of the space determined by the offset.

    Color Bars

    Adds a small square of color for each spot or process color. Spot colors converted to process colors are represented using process colors. Your service provider uses these marks to adjust ink density on the printing press.

    Page Information

    Places page information outside the crop area of the page. Page information includes the filename, page number, current date and time, and color separation name.

    Bleed Top, Bottom, Left, Right

    Controls the bleeds for the artwork. When the Link Bleeds icon button is selected, these four values are proportional--editing one will update the values in the other three.