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add bleed lines

Hi I have created an A5 booklet in Acrobat Pro 9. There are 44 pages in a single pdf and they are all an A5 page size. I sent my pdf copy to a commercial printer and he has said that I need to include a 5mm bleed line. Now when I go to add the bleed line it seems to be taking the 5mm from the size of the original a5 document, so when it goes to print the document turns out to be 5mm sorter. Please can anyone help make sense of this


GEMMA R


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You need to make your pages 10mm larger in each direction (so that you have 5mm on top, botton, left and right edge). You can do this in Adobe Acrobat by using the Crop tool:

Open up your document, then right-click on a page in the Page Thumbnail pane, right-click and select "Crop Pages...". This will bring up the crop dialog. An A5 page is 148x210mm, so we need to get to 158x220mm. In the bottom left corner of this new dialog you should see "Change Page Size". Select custom and then enter 158 and 220. Make sure that the "Center" checkbox is checked.

Then select to apply to all pages in the Page Range box on the right side.

Now go back into the Crop dialog and set your bleed box to 5mm from the four edges.

Karl Heinz Kremer
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