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Illustrator exporting larger as PDF with only 3mm bleed

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
September 14, 2023
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I am just getting very confused about this! I'm trying to create an advert for a printed magazine. The trim size is 212 x 278 mm, with a 3mm bleed on all sides. This is my doc set up:

But when I export with my own imported joboptions, the size of the PDF in acrobat is 235,3 x 301,3mm!

Doing the exact same thing in indesign with the same joboptions creates a file of 218 x 284 mm, which is how it should be... does anyone know where I am going wrong? Here are my export settings:

I've tried playing with the offset, but it still doesn't save in the correct size. I'm sure it's super easy and I'm just lost, but if anyone has an idea please let me know!

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Ton Frederiks

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You and your printer are looking at the Crop Box, which includes the space needed for the trim marks.

Ton Frederiks

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Check in Acrobat > Print Production > Set Page Boxes

Ton Frederiks

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Did you check the page boxes in Acrobat?

Monika Gause

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Did you check out the dimensions of the boxes in Acrobat?

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Jessica32288520fxs9Author

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I did! I followed a tutorial and can set the page boxes to nearly the right size by changing the cropbox margin controls. Thanks for the tip! 🙂 But is there no way to avoid this step? My goal is to make working files eventually to help my team out, and I know a lot of people design on illustrator. Would be nice to not have to resize in acrobat after saving

Monika Gause

Community Expert

The question is if that is really necessary?

The wrong size is in the Acrobat info or where is that coming from?

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