Where did bleed/crop go in PDF?

[ashleyportland]

I am exporting from Illustrator CS (PC) as a PDF. The document has crop marks and bleed laid out in Illustrator, but when I open it in Acrobat they've gone.

The document appears cropped at the marks - which is great, but there doesn't seem anyway to get the bleed back when printing. Have this just disappeared?

If I open the PDF up in Illustrator the bleed is still there. Would this be okay with a commercial printer?

Ashley

 

[MarcusStringer]

Send the Printer the Illustrator file.

It sounds like your page setup is set to the wrong size ie.
you have put your bleed and trims outside the Document Area.
It has to be inside the Document size for it to print.
(which is different to most other programs, where you can put stuff outside the Document area, then set your bleed in the print menu so it picks it up)

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[carlow]

Hi ashleyportland,

Maybe you can use my trick.

When your file is ready you take the square tool and you make a square that has the samesize as your paper size. Put the square exactly on the paper. Then I go to Filter > Tim Marks. Now you have trim marks around your paper size.
Then go to document setup and change your paper size ( putthe bleed you want as an extra on the document setup. Be sure to put some extra mm so that the trim marks you created are also on the new document setup.
When you make a pdf of this file it will include your bleed.

hope it helps
carlow

 

[ashleyportland]

Thank you both for your feedback.

The crop marks are definetely within the document area - I created an A4 document and one project for example is 65mm x 65mm.

I have made the crop marks by taking the square tool and converting to trim marks, like you say Carlow - added bleed when I save to PDF, but still when I put in Acrobat it doesn't put through.

[Just tried now putting the bleed up to 20mm - 1 of the photos only bleeds 3mm - and it defintely is still just showing me what is inside the crop marks - both in Acrobat and when I print]

HELP!

 

[carlow]

okay,
put a suare on your paper size fil it wit none and with no stroke. Probably the bleed will show. If not send me the file and I wll look into it.

carlow

carlo.w@mail.be