On 18/10/2010, at 9:39 AM, Edmondson, Becky wrote:

HI Alan,

I don't understand this--> "The page shown onscreen in Framemaker (and different to page layout
programs like InDesign that include the pasteboard) is the physical
page that is enclosed by crop/trim marks. That means what you see on
the page is that area that is bounded by the excess that will be
chopped off when the page has been printed. Typically anything outside
the page boundary will not exist when the job is done."

My document size is 7.25 x 9 and the tabs will only be on chapter headers, so they will all be right-sided pages. When I PDF the file, I set the page boundaries to 8.5 x 11 and turn on crop marks. What I see in the PDF is the bleed exactly where it needs to be--0.2 inches outside the trim mark on the right side of the involved pages.

I have made some assumptions. That your book will have right and left pages, but I did mention that in my previous post, and that the tabbed pages will be within the FrameMaker files and that all the pages are tabbed (on that count I was wrong).

So, you are saying that the printed page size will be 7.25" x 9" but that the tabs will only appear on selected pages (the first page of each chapter). Then you have two approaches (at least): 1. Have a separate file for the chapter first page and its reverse that has a different page size to the rest of the document. 2. Have all the pages the same size (8.5" x 11") but provide trim marks on the standard page masters that use the same spot colour as the trim parks that are provided by FrameMaker.

In either case the first page of each chapter, unless is breaks the laws of nature, must have another side to it. Therefore you need to provide a page master for it because it will be different to all the other pages. It is left facing and it has a die-cut.



Is there any reason this won't work?

Hard to say. I can't see what you can.

From what you have described all the pages will be cut to trim 8.5" x 11" but you said that the page size should be 7.25" x 9".

HIH
Alan
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Alan T Litchfield
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941, Auckland, 1140
New Zealand
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice

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