Indesign CS2 bleed problem

[PsychoSpike]

Hi,

i am a beginning user of Indesign, and i came across a strange problem.

my case is that i want to export a indesign cs2 file to a pdf, with crop marks, and a small bleed.

So i get the concept of 'bleed', bleed is supposed to be an area that is larger than the document size, to ensure that printed document shows properly and doesnt have a small white border. (the bleed is not supposed to be printed)

now with whatever setting i try (i have tried setting document setting bleed, and the bleed in the export panel in 'marks and bleed'), the pdf does not use my bleed settings and shows more than the bleed. (it shows all)
Now i dont think this is a very big problem because of the crop marks, but the pdf shows pretty messy.

has anyone got any tips for me? i want to be able to set a 2 mm bleed and have the pdf 'only' show 2mm of bleed instead of the whole document.

thx in advance!

 

[dougal77]

If you want crop marks, InDesign has to add the space for them. The whole point of bleed is that the only stuff in the bleed space is stuff you'd be happy to be appear on the page if the worst came to the worst. Therefore you won't get crop marks within it. The position of the crop marks can be adjusted in the 'offset' bit of the Marks and Bleeds section of the pdf export menu.

 

[PsychoSpike]

thank you for trying to help

i get that InDesign adds the space, but say you have 10mm of object coming out of the document,

if you set the bleed to 5mm, isnt it supposed to cut off the outer 5mm? that's my problem, it doesnt, it shows the whole 10mm, is that normal?

thx again.

 

[apepp]

...never come across a problem with bleed settings on export before...

...if you set it to zero bleed does it export as flush size without crop marks enabled?

...if it is still playing up, trash the preferences file and relaunch indesign to rebuild it...

Andrew