Setting page size to show bleeds

Rick Quatro frameexpert at truevine.net
Mon Feb 27 14:06:22 PST 2006


Hi Scott,

I think you have to set the PDF page size and registration marks in the PDF 
Setup dialog box. Format > Document > PDF Setup.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com


> Folks
> I was at a client's site last week and training the clients on our 
> software
> and framemaker on the PC.
> When it came to distilling the files and creating pdfs that show bleeds I
> could not get the pages to cooperate. I went in and changed the print 
> output
> from letter size to tabloid and I also changed my distiller page size to
> tabloid. I selected show crop marks.
> After creating the postscript file and then opening that file in distiller
> the pdf page format was still letter size which of course showed no bleeds
> nor crops marks.
> I use a MAC here and these steps are how I create my printer pdfs on the
> Mac. I then can show both the bleed tabs and crop marks. I have not done
> much outputting with a pc version of Frame. IS there something I missed?
> Client was using Frame 7.1, distiller 7.0.
> I use frame 7.0 distiller 5.0.
> -- 
> Scott White
> Media Production Manager
> AlaMark Technologies
> 210-704-8239
> swhite at alamark.com




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