BLEEDING PICTURE TO EDGE

[Kathrynlewis]

I have a vertical picture that I want to bleed to the edge. (It's actually in a word doc.)then I write over to PDF. Is there a way either in Word or Adobe to bring the picture to the left hand side without it appearing that margins are creating a white space on teh top/bttom and left hand side of image? I have already played with margins, to no avail.

 

[deecee]

well you can save the image directly from photoshop to pdf... [Hammer]
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[jimoblak]

Bleeds are created by printing an oversize image on an oversize page - - and then trimming down to the target page size. Are you printing on 9x12" paper?

The printer needs to grab onto something.

 

[deecee]

o i thought this was just a pdf question....my bad

but jimbolak is right you print your document then trim the white around it....of course unless you have a desktop publishing laser printer then no need for trimming from what i understand but those are pricey [Hammer]
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[Eggles]

Even fancy colour laser printers (we have a Xerox Phaser 7700 at work) cannot print right to the edge. There is still a few mm around the edges that will not print. We must trim if we want the image to extend to the edge of the page.

 

[Kathrynlewis]

Actually, Its not a printing issue. Its that when I have the vertical picuture on the page in word, it looks like its all the way to the edge, but then when I go to page preview/print preview, there is some white space to the left of it, on top and on bottom. Does this make sense?

 

[jimoblak]

Yes - it makes perfect sense. MS Word is recognizing that you've placed content too close to the edge of the page and is compensating. This is still a printing issue.

You may try tinkering with the printer's own settings but you will not get far with this. Printers always pad margins - - they need to grip the paper and will not grip on an inked area.

 

[Kathrynlewis]

Well this is the thing...I don't actually want to print the document. I need to post it on the company's intranet site and eventually internet site, but when its converted to pdf format, it still appears as though image is not far enough over to edge. ANy way to rectify it so that when posted on an internet page, it looks like its all teh way over?

 

[jimoblak]

Even if you are not printing to paper, you will need to print to file. You may investigate another printer driver to create a printer file that can be distilled.

If it is possible, use Photoshop to create the page layout and export to PDF from Photoshop.