Is there a way to Preview a Document without Bleeds?

As you only want to preview, You can go to view and select presentation mode, it will show the document excluding bleeds, press escape when done viewing to go back.

The bleed line is a guide, so you can show or hide it along with other guides using the View > Guides > Hide/Show Guides menu item, or by pressing press ⌘; (Ctrl + ; on Windows).

Well..

This post is from 2010 but, unfortunely, it seems very actual. It should already be possible to "preview" the artboard. Just like in "InDesign", you press "w" and voilá! Just with one quick shortcut your life is so much better. Come on, Adobe..

The old layer, mask clipping is just a workaround. And it takes time to do it. Not practical.

The save for web solution it's not a solution. When working with big artboards, it gets memory impossible.

It's just so strange Adobe applications not "sharing" best functionality between them. It looks like big inside competition.

Like in Acrobat.. why did they change the CTRL+0, Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- zoom solutions? Now, it get's very stressful to review PDF documents with the zoom solution different from all other applications!

What you mean a preview to see what my artwork will look like when it comes back from the printers… why on earth would I want that?

Lordy lordy, the only reason there's no competition for Adobe is that they just gobble every good prospective newcomer in acquisitions. They just layer on more 'features' that they port form acquired products and that we just don't need, but fail miserably to support or fix issues that have been there since day one.

Also anyone at Adobe ever thought it might be a good idea to include a font manager in the Creative Suite bearing in mind the plethora of tools now shipping, from arse wiping utilities to new and totally irrellevent, WYSIWYG webdesign apps?

Next to the Sony mobile team this has to be the most misguided set of developers this side of the Universe. I really have sympathy for them because they're probably very talented, just unfortunately managed by baboons.

Use a layer as a clipping mask is a workaround.

Described by Mordy Golding in 2008 here:

http://rwillustrator.blogspot.nl/2008/05/ask-mordy-preview-without-bleed.html

regards,

Ton

You can try this:

shift+alt+ctrl+s

which gives you the Save for Web preview and works well.

It's not what's needed though.

Lou,

You may create a (white or whatever suitable) Compound Path of two rectangles to cover the bleed, the smaller one corresponding to the artwork without it.