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Exported PDF Page Information Being Cut-Off Cut-Off

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
September 23, 2020
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I've noticed that when I create printable PDFs with InDesign CC v15.1.2, the page information that InDesign places outside of the trim area is often cut-off, especially on smaller jobs. This has been a problem for as long as I can remember. There seems to be an adequate amount of space for this information. Please see the included image.

Is this a setting or a bug?

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Correct answer Laubender

Hi kcrossley,

I would uncheck this option.

Instead, I would create a custom sized slug area with Document Setup and provide the information with InDesign text variables. Name of the document, date and page number should be no problem.

Don't know what you expect additionally in the slug.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

rob day

Community Expert

If I include Bleed marks as well as Crop marks it seems to work:

designer_london

Participating Frequently

bleed marks in 2024 lol, let's just invite chaos when they trim to the wrong ones

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi MaryinSC,

why too cumbersome? This is set up in less than ten minutes.

And for the next project it's just a matter of copy and paste…

FWIW: I cannot think that a feature request ( or bug report ) like that has any high priority in InDesign development.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

designer_london

Participating Frequently

Just say you don't know the answer to a simple and continual issue (usuallly due to the long length of a file name) and let someone else try

BobLevine

Community Expert

Did you seriously see some need to hijack a two and half year old discussion for that comment? And don't bother answering since I'm going to lock this one.

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MaryinSC

Participant

I'm having the same issue and it would be too cumbersome to add additional slug area for this information. Any word from Adobe as this post is almost a year old?

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Laubender

Community Expert

"How do I contact Adobe to report a bug or find out if they can help?"

You could write a feature request at Adobe InDesign UserVoice and advertise it:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

K

kcrossleyAuthor

Inspiring

To be honest, I shouldn't have to do any additional work to add job information to the artwork. This is already built-in to InDesign. Adobe just needs to implement it properly.

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

How do you create the PDF? Via export or via print?

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kcrossleyAuthor

Inspiring

Using Adobe PDF Presets.

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Laubender

Correct answer

Community Expert

Hi kcrossley,

I would uncheck this option.

Instead, I would create a custom sized slug area with Document Setup and provide the information with InDesign text variables. Name of the document, date and page number should be no problem.

Don't know what you expect additionally in the slug.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

K

kcrossleyAuthor

Inspiring

Does anyone have any other ideas? How do I contact Adobe to report a bug or find out if they can help?

BobLevine

Community Expert

Increase the size of the bleed and see if that helps.

K

kcrossleyAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks for the suggestion, Bob. I increased it to a ridiculous 1/2" and it didn't make a difference. Hopefully, somebody from Adobe will see this thread and chime in because it's really annoying. Plus, it makes me look unprofessional whenever I send a file to my printer or a client. 🙂

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