I'm making an A0 poster with a 3mm bleed. It's in the document setup, it's all linked, all settings are established but the problem is in exporting the bleed.
My bleed is showing as a white 3mm border and isn't showing as the extended graphic images. Ive tried everything on every discussion board, I am a frequent user of indesign and im at a loss this has never happened before with exporting bleeds.
The document itself (screenshot) shows the correct format in bleed preview but when exporting pdf it always turns up with white edges
how do i fix this???
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I also made a copy of your placed PDF and reset the cropbox to 0 in AcrobatPro, and placed that with Media as the option and it worked, so I'm not sure what's going on with the package you provided.
Here's the fixed package
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In the Marks and Bleeds section of your Export Adobe PDF dialog does your bleed setting look like the screen shot below?
Also is your bleed set up in the Document Setup dialog as in the below screen shot?
As you're unfortunately discovering, InDesign lets you set up a bleed area when you create a document but it doesn't automatically let you output it. To get out what you design into your InDesign document, you need to specify the output result.
Going on the assumption that you're setting up the PDF output through PDF presets (a valid workflow, but not the only one) I'd suggest you set up your PDF output similar to the example below:
By default, settings in the Marks and Bleeds section will be turned off. While you can make things easy on yourself by simply selecting the All Printers Marks check box, The essential information you'd need to specify your bleed and see it's done right are the first three check boxes beneath that. Crop Marks, which show the trim area for the pages inside the bleeds; Bleed Marks, which show the edge of the bleed area outside the trim; and, because you're using process color outside the trim Registration Marks, which will allow your printers to ensure you get proper alignment for conventional process color printing. Ask your printer about registration marks though, since they may not be compatible with some digital output workflows.
Below that is the Bleed and Slug section. Here is where you can specify how much space you allow for bleed information. I personally prefer to specify the bleed area rather than rely on the document bleed settings. That way I know what I'm going to get at the end of the process.
If you prefer to "print" your PDFs, you get similar settings with your print options after you name the PDF you want to "print" from InDesign.
Either way, I think if you follow this roadmap, you'll get the end results you're looking for.
Hope this helps,
Randy
Thanks Gaurki, much appreciated. I can take a look and see if there's anything I can add. If not, we can submit it as a bug.
For what it's worth, I've worked in printing for over since I was 17, I'm 38 now... a good 21 years! I don't flount around with bad advise, hence the large format idea I had, it's not going to be an issue having no bleed on an A0.
Most large format operators apply a border outside the image to trim off. Once the image is printed, it's trimmed on a hand trimmer, and a long bench, or it can be trimmed on a guillotine.
But trimming into the image won't detract from it being so big, A0 is quite large.
I'd say a lot of 1 off A0 prints are actually undersize, but nobody cares. 
Your WC 717TF.indd file has no document bleed—see Document Setup:
That also shows in the Export Marks and Bleeds
If you uncheck Use Document Bleed Settings and add a bleed it would have no content because the document has no bleed assigned:
Note: Setting the crop to "Bleed" and fitting content to frame in Indesign will just enlarge the background PDF until the errant bleed area is out of the frame and not visible; 104%
That's because the PDF's original dimension including its bleed is 5.5" x 4.5" and not your trimmed 5.25" x 4.25"—I think messing around with the Page Boxes in AcrobatPro is what's causing your problem.
To match the placed PDF's trim and bleed (with no Page Box edits) over in InDesign, the document size (the trim) would have to be 5.25" x 4.25" with a .125" bleed.
In that case placing at 100% would cover the ID page bleed and it will export that way.
If you want the trim to be 5.125 x 4.125 with a .125" bleed, you can set up the document that way and reduce the PDF. That's what I did in the Dropbox fix I posted. Note that I removed your Page Box edits in AcrobatPro before placing:
"That's because the PDF's original dimension including its bleed is 5.5" x 4.5" and not your trimmed 5.25" x 4.25"—I think messing around with the Page Boxes in AcrobatPro is what's causing your problem."
It's a little confusing because the document happens to be slightly reduced from a previous printed size (they couldn't fit the printed piece easily into product packaging) but scaling down the PDF in inDesign isn't causing the issue and changing the crop to setting of the placed PDF to bleed would not fix it either in this case, that would result in a 1/4th inch tighter crop on the background graphic than intended, or the wrong scale if fit to content. So even if the background imported PDF was at 100% scale placed on a 5.25x4.25 inDesign doc with 1/8th bleeds, if you set Crop To: Bleed the background is too small, and fit content to frame then makes the logo off-center on the right panel, the blue rectangle wouldn't align with product text description, etc. So it would change the appearance and relative position of objects rather than reducing the overall scale as designed. See screenshot.
Only non-destructive solutions were to export as PDF 1.3 (granted no transparency issues) or to fix the crop of the imported document using Acrobat.
Not sure what program caused the problem since I can't duplicate them with another PDF using Acrobat or Illustrator. Suspect that program is Enfocus Neo or a workflow product like Fuji XMF based on knowledge of what software the original designer had available.
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