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May 3, 2024
Question

Bleeds not showing after saving

  • May 3, 2024
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I have followed the instructions provided by the print shop.
1) File => New 105mm x 148mm
Bleed => 3mm

2) File => Place and resize to fit the "box" to the red outline

3) Save as => PDF

Marks & Bleed
click "trim marks"

The print shop says that they don't see the bleed. 
Opening as preview on Mac I don't see the bleed either.

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Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 3, 2024

Your bleed is extremely large and will cut off most of the image.

You say you need 3 mm, but you have 33 mm

Oh.N8Community ExpertAuthor
May 3, 2024

I thought I had corrected that in the updated version.

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 3, 2024

Almost, you need to scale it so that all four bleed areas are filled, currently only the bottom uses the bleed.

Just scale it so all sides touch the red bleedbox.

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 3, 2024

Apple Preview is a toy. 

If you want to do Preflight, you'll need to use Acrobat.

Oh.N8Community ExpertAuthor
May 3, 2024

Hey Monika, 
Thank-you for your suggestion. I should have mentioned and this is the real issue the print shop said that the bleeds are not showing.
They are not able to use the PDFs for printing. I have a number of files. The print shop can't use them; eventhough, I followed the instructions provided by the print shop.

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 3, 2024

Are they opening the PDF in Acrobat?

Can you please upload that PDF?