My margins and bleed settings look different after export?

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October 7, 2025
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Hi everyone, I’m having an issue with my InDesign file. the margins and bleed settings appear correct in the document, but after exporting to PDF, they look different or misaligned. I’ve double-checked my export settings, but nothing seems off. Could someone explain why this happens and how to fix it?

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Peter Spier

Community Expert

If you include any printers marks in you export, the size of the file is increased enough to hold them, as well as by any amount of bleed.

Is this what you are seeing?

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jimmysam2Author

Participant

Thanks for the insight! That might actually be the issue. I did include printer’s marks during export. I’ll try exporting again without them and see if that fixes the alignment. Appreciate the help!

nikunj.m

Community Manager

Hi, I just wanted to follow up on this conversation to check if the suggestions by Peter Spier helped. If they did, please mark the message from Peter as the correct answer so that it can help others as well.

Thanks,
Nikunj

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