FR: Need Alignment Options for Bleed in InDesign

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November 4, 2024
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Strange that there is no option to align to bleed(cut-offs) in the alignment panel?

Is it that the officials don't think it's useful?
I personally need it. What about you guys?

rob day

Community Expert

Hi @dublove , In your example do you want to move the selection or extend it to the bleed? Or, consider this more ambiguities example:

Should the rectangle be moved or extended? Where? All four sides? One, two, three, or four?

dubloveAuthor

Legend

Hi @rob day I've been waiting for you for 10,000 years.

It's moving.
It's simply alignment moving.
This issue is just expected to be discovered by Adobe and we don't have to put much effort into it.
There's not much point in going back to scripts or plugins.

Actually, I was expecting that it would be possible to have objects aligned to the reference(guide?) line.

Thank you very much.

Speaking of extensions, it turns out you modified a script for me.
Been meaning to ask: it now applies to text boxes, how do I make it work for images and frames?
I've posted the last one at the end of this post, so please help me out.

fit to colum and typearea

rob day

Community Expert

Apologize. I can't understand.
The extension you're talking about is probably what I mean by a frame or picture that fits into a bleed, or typearea.

I can't understand.

If you are adding a bleed for print, you wouldn’t want the text to move when you add the bleed to the text frame.

This:

Not this (which would happen when the text frame is moved):

Frans v.d. Geest

Community Expert

You can align with an Object Style to the bleed lines (by reference point -3 with a 3mm bleed for instance), agreed not the same as with the alignment panel, but it works.

Pariah Burke

Community Expert

I forgot about moving by object style (-0.125 in, if you're using Imperial measurements). Still, my script might be useful to someone who doesn't have exclusive object styles on the bleeding objects.

Pariah Burke

Community Expert

While we're waiting for Adobe to build it into InDesign, I've created a free script you can use to snap objects to one or more bleed guides. Download it here: http://abbrv.it/IDAlign2Bleeds