I am working on a 8.5 x 11 sized catalog with full bleed. My page settings in indesign CS4 show .125 bleed on all four sizes. My commercial printer wants me to print to postscript and distill from there. They do not want me to uncheck use bleed settings inside indesign before export. Should the page going into distiller export at 8.5 x 11 or at another size allowing for the bleed? (8.75 x 11.25?)Is this correct. Inside distiller I should change the page size to this as well? Appreciate any help as I am somewhat confused about this process and want to keep thngs working properly.

Rob

bob levine

How is this laid out? Facing pages? Single pages?

How is being printed? How is it being bound?

Finally...Distiller is not the recommend method of creating PDFs. You
should ask the printer why they prefer distilled PDFs over exported.

Bob

Saddle stitch, however the printer is having me export single pages, not spreads and they will handle all other settings. The printer specifically asked for distilled files only and this is not the first printer I have worked with that prefers distilled files over direct pdf exports.

jeffrey_smith

robert, ID print menu > Setup > Paper Size: Custom: 8.75W H11.25, then in Marks and Bleeds, set .125" for all: Top, Bottom, Inside, Outside. Print postscript and then distill, resulting PDF will be 8.75 x 11.25.

You need to set these page parameters in the application that is creating the postscript, not in Distiller.

bob levine

And for saddlestitch you need to set the inside bleed to zero.

Bob

jeffrey_smith

And for saddlestitch you need to set the inside bleed to zero


Bob, when a file is placed in most imposition applications, the inside bleed is not revealed anyways. Here is one example of why I would leave the bleeds on all sides... Project is a magazine with full page adverts, last minute decision by the publisher to swop and move ad on page 14 to page 27, then what??