How to Mirror Bleed Margins

Question

I'm pretty new using this software, so I don't really know WHAT I'm doing.

I'm trying to add a bleed margin, and since I have a colored background, I need it to be colored as well.

That's what I did:

- I added the bleed marks (under Add Printer Marks)
- I grew the page boundaries by some mm (under Set Page Boxes)
- I opened the Preflight window
- Under the "Prepress, Color and Transparency" library I searched for the "Generate 2mm bleed from page content" fix
- Applied the fix
- Got an error window I don't even know how to use. (basically it told me that it cannot do the mirroring, no additional info found in the list...)

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the help

Luke Jennings3 · Answer

I believe the add bleed preflight profile looks for elements that are butting the trim line and extends them to add bleed. If you are increasing page boundaries before trying to add bleed, this might be the source of the error. If there is the slightest gap between the element and the trim, this might also cause the add bleed preflight to fail. Is the element an image or vector? A reliable work-around is to place the pdf into an InDesign page and add the bleed there (by placing an additional copy of the pdf for bleed or replicating the background) then exporting to a new pdf.

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