How to Quickly Add Bleed to Any PDF in Adobe Acrobat

hello again everyone back with another tutorial this one is how to add a bleed to a PDF document uh using Adobe Acrobat uh pre-flight so in front of me here I have three different uh files uh first one is a business card that I've set up with a spot color and then these two are photos the raster images and all three of these have no bleed so if I open up this business card I chose a bright magenta background just so that it's easy to see the color but if I look at the properties for this file you can see my page size is 3 and 1 12 Pi 2 so if I want to create a bleed there's tons of different ways to do it you can open it an illustrator in design copy it there's some programs out there that will automatically do this for you like uh flexi or Onyx um however let's just say we want to do this in Adobe Acrobat so first thing we're going to do is we're going to open our pre-flight and we're going to click on our single fix up fix ups and here we're going to create a new fix up so I'm going to call this uh let's see uh let's call it create bleed by mirroring image and under the comments we'll just say this will create a mirrored if I could spell right mirrored look to any page elements and make it full bleed you can call this whatever you want what however you uh want to name it just so you remember it but uh this is what I'll call mine so now here under the fix up category we're going to select pages and then up here we're going to type in the word bleed now there's two different types of bleed that are built in to pre-flight one is called generate bleed at page edges and one is called generate bleed by upscaling basically the difference between the two is this one is going to take whatever image is near the edge of the page and it's going to try to mirror that and create the additional bleed that you want this one the upscaling will take the entire image and basically expand it out to fit to your bleed requirements so in this case since we're going to be mirroring the image we want to go ahead and select this first one here so there are a few different settings we want to change uh under the method here I'm going to change from images to page objects uh for instance in this case this is not an image this is an actual just uh fil filled box so I want to make sure that it applies to anything on the page so we change that to mirror page objects uh this stays the same repeat only to visible page content this is in reference to if you want to ignore a certain uh panone color or something like that maybe um I I don't know exactly what you would want to use it for but that's an option in there the resolution should always leave it at 300 DPI um the color space you if you know for sure you're going to be using a cmk or an RGB color space you can change this otherwise you can just use the default and then it'll automatically change it to cmk if it's not automatically detected uh the other change I would do is Select this to create the bleed behind the current page content just just in case um you have to edit it later that way it's behind it not in front of it and doesn't cover up anything uh by accident uh you want to leave this on apply to all and then the last area we need to go in here and configure some of these uh settings so if I check that box or click that box this is going to be create a bleed box and then these numbers here are how wide you want to go ahead and create your bleed so for me I'm going to change it to inch because I use Imperial and then I'm going to type in 0.125 which will give me an eighth of an inch bleed on all four left bottom right and Edge or top edges so that's everything here there's additional settings and obviously you can change these to whatever you f comfortable with or whatever you need for your specific need if you're working in inch or millimeters or you prefer using uh points that's fine you can do that uh just make sure that whatever you change to you you this is what your final settings are going to be for your um document so I'm going to click okay you can see the all these parameters changed there's nothing else to change on this and I'm going to hit okay and so now I'm going to search in here bleed and this is the profile that we just created so now if I click on this or double click on it it's going to prompt me to save so I'm going to doore two and I hit save and now you can see it's created a bleed in everywhere except for the corners now if you want to make sure that the corners are also being uh generated as well what we can do is we can go back in here and we can change uh this setting let's see no this is ah edges and Corners that's it so here I had it selected so it's just the edges so that's why you have these little white boxes if we select edges and Corners then it'll get those areas as well so let me go back in here to my original file close this open up my original file here and let me double uh click on that again I'll just call this underscore 3 and now it will create it now there's no white box and if I go up to my properties you can see now my page size is uh no longer 3 and 1 half by two it's 3.75x 2.25 and what we've done is we've added the extra eighth of an inch to the outside to create the bleed so that is how to do it on a uh document that has a spot color or um Vector elements so this is a uh a vector box so that's how that works now let me show you on a photo here so I have an 11 by 17 size sheet and basically what we're going to do is we're g to mirror the edge here to create our bleed so if I go back into pre-flight I still have this open here and I'm going to call this underscore two and I'll hit save and you can see it didn't didn't look look like it did too much but if I click on properties you can see now this is 11 and a/4 by 17 and recorder and if I zoom in close you can see what it's done is it's taken this part of the image and mirrored it to the outside that's why you have kind of this weird area here that are that is going around the um the outside of the image so here you don't really notice it too much because it's kind of a uniform uh shape and color but right here you can kind of see it and that way um uh that way you you can go ahead and just mirror this over and you don't distort any of the image here so now there's another way to do this if I click on this one here this is a 5x5 photo and let's say uh I'm not really too worried about um or I don't like the look of that mirror that mirror look to it so it'll create kind of some some funky looking things like with the the hills here it will look kind of uneven um or down here it'll look a little uneven even so let's just say I want to take this whole image and I want to just increase the size so that it makes it um an extra quarter inch and adds the bleeding well if we go back into pre-flight and I have still have the word bleed selected here in my single fix up single fix ups there's uh a default one in here called create 1.5 mm bleed by upscaling so if I edit that I look here under the pages this is that other version that I could have selected uh when I set up the other profile so these these uh settings here might be different by default might be on millimeter and um might be might say three or something else this is what I've changed mine to inch and 1.2 or 0.125 and then I'm going to apply this to all pages and I'm going to do a maximum Distortion of uh 5% so basically what that is going to do is it's going to take the image back here and it's going to essentially stretch it out to add the bleeding so if I hit hit okay come back in here double click and I'll just call this one underscore two and I'll hit save and you can see it didn't really look like it did too much but if I go into my properties it's no longer 5x5 it's five and and a quart by 5 and a qu and you can see this by if I open up in design here I have the original um photo placed in and if I come up here and place in the new one that I made you can see this one includes a bleed and it's a little bit distorted because it's a little bit larger than than what the other one is if I move this to the back back you can see this image has been stretched to fill this out I can do the same thing in uh in design I can just expand out my boxes and then stretch this IM image out but by using the um a pre-flight in Adobe Acrobat i' no longer have to do that this also is helpful if I have a long document with lots of pages that I need to add bleed to or if you want to run it through with multiple images quickly without having to place them in the in design and drag them out or an illustrator or in Photoshop um you can do it in any one of the Adobe programs but this way we'll do it much quicker than opening them up one by one and then expanding them out to make them fit so I hope that's helpful um please leave a comment down in the uh comment section if you have any questions I'm happy to answer please like subscribe share as always and we'll catch you on the next next one thanks

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Published: Mon Sep 18 2023