Belongs to
- Category: Prepress
- Type: Changes
- Since version: 13
What it does
Allows you to add bleed all around the page, e.g. on all 4 edges if needed.
Note: This Action applies bleed based on the bleed box; if you don't have a bleed box yet, you
can use the 'Change bleed box' Action to create one.
You may use this Action to make your file PDF/X-4 compliant.
How to proceed
- Select the edge(s) you want to add bleed to. Bleed is added from the trim box edges to the bleed box.
- Select Add bleed in corners as required.
- Indicate where the bleed should start (inside the bleed box).Note: By default, the same values are used on all edges; if you change one value, all other values are automatically changed as well. If you don't want this, click the Lock icon
, so it changes to 
. You can now use different values as
required. - Select Mirror margins according to page binding as required. When selected, the inner and outer instead of the left and right margins have to be set, so the amount of bleed may be different for even and odd pages.
- By default, to add bleed, PitStop uses several techniques, such as extending clips and mirroring existing content. In some cases, it may be preferable to only use the mirroring technique. If that is the case, select Only add bleed by mirroring content. Note that this also helps to keep the file size down.
Pre-defined Action Lists
PitStop 13 comes with two new standard Action Lists allowing you to add bleed to your PDF:
- Generate Bleed to 3mm if none, and correctly set all Page Boxes
- Generate Bleed to 3 mm if some, none, or not enough.