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Setting bleed and slug guides - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2021 Essential Training
Setting bleed and slug guides
- We've talked a lot about different kinds of guides that you can add to your document, but there are two more that are really important for print production, bleed and slug guides. Now, if you're making an on-screen document, like it's only going to be displayed on screen, or it's only going to be printed on a desktop printer, then you can ignore bleed in slug settings. But for print documents that you'll be sending to be printed on a printing press, well these can be really important, especially bleed guides. Bleed is for when you want a background color or an image to extend all the way to the edge of the page and see, in order for that to work on a printing press, you actually have to extend it past the edge of the page onto the pace board. If you don't, then when it ends up on press, you may see a white sliver down one side or the other. So to compensate printers want you to extend the object off the page onto the pace…
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