Tiff to PDF and pre-press (very easy, but difficult for me)

[well_done_]

Hi there everyone.

Let's see if you can help me. I would be very thankful.

I have some tiff images (in colour) cut to desired size that I want to convert to PDF/X-1a for final printing. I just want to import a couple of TIFF (same size and color space), and tell Adobe Acrobat PRO to convert to desired size.

210x55mm tiff size

Crop marks at that size.

Bleed is 4mm

Paper size in printing company is really 214x59mm (adds 4mm to final cut, so that machine can cut to 210x55mm)

WIth all this data, what should I do?

Thank you in advance to all of you!

Javier (SPAIN)

[Abambo]

a)  your printing company should be able to work with your tiff files.

b) if your tiff files are correctly conditioned you only need to drop them to Acrobat.

You still need to determine if your tiff files have the correct resolution (normally you need 300dpi).

Your tiff files need 214x58mm @ 300dpi. You do not need, normally, adding crop marks. You can add trimming information. Look here for more information: Crop PDF pages in Adobe Acrobat

[well_done_]

Let's forget for a moment the example I gave to you. I have the same problem with Microsoft Word documents ready for printing.

I need to tell Acrobat that the design I import into it is the "trimbox" (the final size of printing job). Then for security reasons I need to tell it the bleedbox (outward margin for cutting) and the mediabox (the "media box" is the size of paper my printing company uses before cutting it to "trim size"). This is how printing companies ask for documents before printing. Unfortunately Adobe Pro doesn't seem to understand this. It takes my document as the "mediabox" and doesn't allow my to tell it to "increase" blank space AROUND the size of the document I import into it.

It seems useless for printing stations. It doesn't matter what app I am using, Acrobat Pro seems not to take it correctly. I don't have InDesign at this moment and I was wondering if Adobe Acrobat Pro XI would do the job...

Let me know if you have any idea.

[well_done_]

People, I made it work. You can extend the "work place" by extending the size of the page and then everything seems to fit in place.

Thank you...!!

[Stephen Marsh · Accepted solution]

Print production tools have what is required:

RGB TIFF image at 11x16cm in size (indicated in red) - but the trim area is to be 10x15cm (indicated in blue):

Then add printer marks after the page boxes have been set as required:

Result:

[Test Screen Name]

What app are you using to make up pages? If you are not sure, InDesign is a good choice. You will not do this in Acrobat.

[Abambo]

You can rework your files in Acrobat to make them "printer ready", but for sure Indesign produces "printer ready" files without additional work to do.

If you use Microsoft Word for preparing your data files, you will have multiple problems and adding crop marks is only one of them. And it's pretty senseless to add bleed if there is no bleed... And Word does not cope with bleed, so you would need to make your page size bigger and consider that and manage the bleed manually.

Also: crop marks are only visual clues for us humans. Most of my printers do not need them respectively recreate them at their discretion. Some even explicitly ask only for bleed and no crop marks.

To my understanding, crop marks are outside of the bleed area.

[Akbarali]

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