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December 3, 2025

showBleedArea in appConfig is not reflecting in the Embed SDK Editor

  • December 3, 2025
  • 1 reply
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Hello,

I am currently integrating the Adobe Express Embed SDK into my application.

I am trying to configure the editor settings using appConfig. However, the showBleedArea property seems to be ignored, and the bleed area does not appear in the editor regardless of the value I set.

 

SDK Version: 4

 

const appConfig = {

      selectedCategory: "templates",

      callbacks: {
        onCancel: () => {
          console.log("User cancelled");
        },
        onPublish: async (intent, publishParams) => {
			const asset = publishParams.asset?.[0];
			if (!asset) return;

			var data = asset.data;

			const m = /^data:application\/pdf;base64,(.+)$/.exec(data);
			const base64Body = m ? m[1] : data;


        await fetch("/", {
          method: "POST",
          headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
          body: JSON.stringify({
          fileName: asset.name || "document.pdf",
          mimeType: asset.type || "application/pdf",
          data: base64Body,
          }),
        });

        console.log("PDF sent to server");
      },
        onError: (err) => {
          console.error("Express error", err);
        },
      },
      showBleedArea: true,
      showPageMargin: true,
    };

    const exportConfig = [
      {
        id: "save-pdf",
        label: "print",
        action: { target: "publish" },
        style: { uiType: "button" },
      },
    ];

 

1 reply

Community Manager
December 3, 2025

Hi @Dynamic_neighbors1066,

 

Thanks for the detailed report and for sharing your config and SDK version 👍

At the moment, it showBleedArea is only supported for specific editor contexts and template types. When the editor is opened via the Embed SDK with templates, the bleed area may not be rendered, even if it showBleedArea: true is set in appConfig. In SDK v4, this behavior is expected, and not all UI flags are applied consistently yet.

A few things that would help us narrow this down further:

  • Does this issue occur with all templates or only those based on print/PDF-based ones?

  • Are you opening an existing document or starting from a new template?

  • Does showPageMargin reflect correctly, while it shows BleedArea does not?

Please also share a minimal reproducible example (or screen recording if possible) so we can validate this with the engineering team. We’ll be happy to dig deeper with you.

 
 

^MM