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October 30, 2023
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Illustrator scripting - exporting PDF without bleed

  • October 30, 2023
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Hey all,


I am trying to automate the export of multiple files including a PDF without bleed. My PDF options so far are as follows, but continues to include bleed 😞

 

    var pdfDoc = new File(dest);
    pdfSaveOpts = new PDFSaveOptions();
    pdfSaveOpts.compatibility = PDFCompatibility.ACROBAT5;
    pdfSaveOpts.generateThumbnails = true;
    pdfSaveOpts.preserveEditability = true;
    pdfSaveOpts.bleedLink = false;
    pdfSaveOpts.bleedOffsetRect = [0,0,0,0];
    pdfSaveOpts.trimMarks = false;
    doc.saveAs(pdfDoc, pdfSaveOpts);

 

Any help hugely appreciated.

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    Sergey Osokin
    Sergey Osokin
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    October 30, 2023

    At first glance, bleedOffsetRect does not affect the content of the PDF file. The old artboard dimensions including bleed remain encoded in the file in the BleedBox[], CropBox[], MediaBox[] keys. There was a similar issue in this discussion https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32778511/illustrator-script-mass-pdf-export-bleed. 

     

    I created a custom PDF preset with different bleed values. When I output this preset, the bleed values do not change: bleedOffsetRect : 0,0,0,0,0. It's as if only manually saving the PDF with a preset that has the bleeds set actually saves them in the file.

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