Bleedlines Always Export as Crop Lines In Indesign

[johns96450781]

When exporting a PDF from Indesing the bleed lines always end up looking like the crop lines when the file opens in adobe acrobat.

I found a work around by printing to PDF, as these options work properly.

Is it possible that i'm overlooking something? The print dialog is almost identical to the export dialog and I'm doing the same thing for each so it's hard to imagine that I am.

Either way I appreciate the help.

[Luke Jennings]

There is a page display preference in Acrobat to show or hide the trim & bleed boxes.

[johns96450781]

Cool, I don't understand how this helps. I need to have bleed marks to send my designs to print.

[Luke Jennings]

Bleed lines are invisible, unless you want to see them.

Can you explain what you are seeing or include a screen shot?

[BobLevine]

I’m not even sure what you’re asking here. What do you mean they look the same?

They’re both just lines in registration color. And FWIW, you should check with the printer. Modern workflows do not require them and in fact many printers will remove them and use their own.

[johns96450781]

The bleed lines are showing up as crop lines on export. I don't even have crop marks checked. The print shop i'm working with requires them. So I don't know what to tell you.

[BobLevine]

Bleed marks and crop marks are identical. They're just in a different place.

Make sure you set the bleed in your export settings and change the offset so it's larger than the bleed.

[johns96450781]

Okay, I realize I misspoke. I'm still fairly new to this, so I apologize for that.

I need crop lines, not bleed lines. When I export the document with crop lines, the crop lines always turn into bleed lines on export. If I print to PDF it exports properly. I have the exact same setting, nothing is different.

When I export as a PDF it doesn't work the way I would expect it to. When I print to PDF it does work the way I would expect it to.

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

It looks like you’re not adding the bleed in the export dialog.

[Scott Citron]

Bob's exactly right. Click to enable Use Document Bleed Settings. That'll solve the problem.

[johns96450781]

Yep, I can't believe I didn't notice that. Thanks so much.

[SJRiegel]

Your document has bleed, but looking at your PDF export options, you have your bleeds set to Zero, so none of your bleed is appearing in the PDF. Check the box that says Use Document Bleed Settings to fix this.

[aileenm81331538]

Do you mean you want your file to have bleed when it exported in Acrobat?

If this is what you want you may set up your document and add .125 bleed (mark all setting the same). So everytime you will export a file from Indesign it will have additional bleed. By doing this you need also to check "use document bleed setting" on your Indesign presets (Ctrl+E).