I am wondering if there is a way to have a bleed on three sides only. I am exporting to a pdf/x for the printers and I do not want the inside edge (book format) to have a bleed. The only way I can see around this is to make the page smaller (the size of the bleed), but I would prefer to simply remove the inside bleed itself. Is this possible?
Hello Kevin; Try playing with the Mesh Fill tool, you should be able to get what you are looking for.
George
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I am talking about page bleed in the printing. So that photos are cut to the edge of the page. When setting up the page you can select a bleed and the size, however, it seems you cannot de-select a particular side. It is all four side or none.
Keven you could make the hole print job including the page to print in CorelDRAW.
I am using CorelDraw, however, the printer requires an exported pdf/x file. Either way it does not get around the bleed issue, wanting it on three sides only that is.
No, there isn't individual edge bleed settings in CD. Is this a requirement of who is printing? It would be an odd request/requirement. They should be able to knock off the inside bleed in their pre-press software.
It can be done in Acrobat.
If the PDF has bleed on all four edges (which is completely usual) that does not mean that the program which imposes it into a booklet has to use the bleed on the unwanted edge. Any decent company that prints booklets will use imposition software that automatically masks the bleed at the gutter. The important thing is to make sure that you do have bleed on the other three edges.
If you specifically want to crop off the bleed on the fourth edge, you can use a powerclip. Just draw a rectangle with one edge along the gutter and the other three edges along the bleed guidlines, and use it to clip each of your pages. But that's effectively what your printing company's imposition software will be doing with your pages when it reaches them, so your efforts will be purely for your own satisfaction and should have no effect on the printed result.
More important than losing the fourth edge is to remember is that if you are doing a saddle stitched booklet, you probably should have some bleed (maybe only 1mm) on the fourth edge of the front cover. The printer is not going to be able to control the fold position exactly on every copy, and it will usually look far worse to have 0.5mm of back cover showing on the front of your booklet than to have 0.5mm of your front cover showing on the back.
Thanks very much for your replies. I agree Mike We, they should be able to knock off the inside bleed, however, when you upload the file it reads the extra width as an error and rejects it. I would go to another printer, but it is the one the client wishes to use. The printer prefers In Design templates, and I do not wish to use it. I have experienced some reticence from them regarding CD, which I do not comprehend. I guess I will go the page resize method I was considering. I will look into the power clip method harryLondon mentioned. Thanks again!