Scaling of content for printing - panic...

Hi all

I tried to adjust my eBook for printing. as a self-taught user and total novice to requirements and printing procedures, I made a fatal mistake to put a lot of my content ouside purple inner margin of the pages. That is to say. they all use the page...

Here is a screenshot of a corner of one of the pages:

margins etc.png

as you can see, the page numbers and the text in the corner is the correction of the page...

I learn by the printing company I'll be necessary across all the content to fit inside the purple borders, or otherwise add 3 mm bottom lost all my documents. I don't know how do either!

They said that the recommended size would be 216 mm x 154 mm, but I'm completely lost here and in a panic, my deadline is close.

any help anyone can give is appreciated... !!!

Thanks in advance

best,

Owen

Purple margin guides are only guides and it has absolutely nothing sacred about them, nor is there any condition that the content remains inside of them. To content it for your convenience and to control the size of the automatically generated text blocks and many, if not most, documents that they would be well beyond 3 mm from the edge to allow do not blend in with the link and give readers sapce som to contain the page.

What is important here, that's what you want and wait get in this corner. Your printer tells you that they do not guarantee exactly shaving the edge of the theoretical page (a common warning). Most digital printing devices are not as accurate as a press to get the perfect regisitration page to page, so when a pile is cut some content will be closer and some further from any given edge as you move through the stack. The even pages printed on a press can have a few variations, and if the cutter operator is sloppy or accumulated debris, cutting can be where it is supposed to be. There is also the problem of the unprintable areas on the edges of a sheet which is used to move the paper along or to prevent ink to penetrate beyond the edge and scrub of the device.

In this case it doesn't seem that the problem is an unprintable, but rather cut exactly on the corner. This means that the possibility exists that part of your corner text or number of page maybe be sliced offshore, or the cup can derive from the other side and let more space than you wanted.

The page number is pretty easy. Move away from the edge that we practice. The text of the corner is not so easy because it looks like you really want this right in the corner. Bleed will not solve this. Bleeding is when go beyond you the edge of the moulding of the page of the 'work' (which means just any area receiving ink). 3 mm is a pretty standard amount. The purge is intended to prevent a white line showing along the edge after trimming when the ink should extend to the edge. Something beyond the point where the paper is cut is ignored.

So a bleed of 3 mm will allow for up to 3mm of alignment in the canoe, but if the page is shifted 3 mm in one direction, the opposite edge is also shifted 3mm in the same direction, this amount is prepared outside the edge of designed a page only one side is adorned by far inside the opposite edge. In order to be sure that you don't lose anything important that you must have all the content you care about back of the edge as much as compensation to bleed, and more, it's probably a good idea. Similarly, if you expect a white border, there must be broad enough to withstand the misalignment.

In the case of your text from corner, large cup of any part of it would be bad, so the only real solution is to modify the design, so none of this is closeer at 3 mm from the edge (and contain page numbers at least 3 mm from the edge, as well). If the units on the leaders in mm RA, it's as if the margins are set to 3mm, then Yes, you would need to move text objects in their guides. Images can be enlarged to extend off the page in 3 mm inisde if you wish, or also moved the guides.

One of the ways to accomplish this (sliding all inward) would be to place your current pages into a new document to correct size and scale. "' You can do this by using the script you will find at InDesignSecrets" Blog Archive "Zanelli releases MultiPageImporter for importing PDF and INDD files

Another option is to find a printer who understands that the position of the content area is critical and can print and cut tight tolerance required. This service is likely to cost more.

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