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Setting bleed and slug guides - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2025 Essential Training
Setting bleed and slug guides
- [Instructor] We've talked a lot about different kinds of guides 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 onscreen document, like it's only going to be displayed onscreen or it's only going to be printed on a desktop printer, then you can ignore the bleed and slug settings. But for print documents that you'll be sending to be printed on a printing press, well, these are really important. Bleed is for when you want a background color or image to extend all the way out to the edge of the page. And see, in order for this to work on a printing press, you actually have to extend it past the edge of the page onto the pasteboard. 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 of the page onto the pasteboard. This is called a bleed, and then they print the whole thing on a…
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