Hi Louis, Thanks for your reply and I believe you understand me correctly. The 6mm is LSI recommendations for bleed, although the actual cutting error/drift over edge is expected to be 2mm. The 3mm inside glueing area now sounds like a potential problem.
If I, in turn, understand you correctly, my pages will have 3mm 'lost' from their inside edges, because of the glue. If this is the case, then I should probably have realized this before I started. Every page will be visibly 3mm thinner than planned, and offset slightly. Sigh... -- Ciao Richard Foley http://www.rfi.net/books.html On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:28:44PM -0400, Louis Desjardins wrote: > 2012/4/25 Richard Foley <richard.foley at rfi.net> > > > Hi folks, > > > > Hi Richard, > > > > > I'm trying to create a layout in Scribus, to send to LSI. The layout > > apparently > > requires a 6mm outside bleed area *and* a 3mm inside 'gutter' for glueing > > purposes, (because it has to be 'perfect' bound). So I am trying to get > > this > > set up: > > > > left page: top=6, left=6, bottom=6, right=3 > > > > right page: top=6, left=3, bottom=6, right=6 > > > > Now, when I try to do this using scribus, inside the document layout, I > > get the > > right hand page with a 3mm inside strip, but the left hand page appears to > > have > > the 3mm removed from it, or is overlapping. What I actually get is the > > following flawed arrangement: > > > > left page: top=6, left=6, bottom=6, right=-3 (flawed) > > > > right page: top=6, left=3, bottom=6, right=6 (correct) > > > > I hope I'm making this clear. I've attached a sample document with 3 empty > > pages, so that anyone who might be interested, can have a look to see what > > I > > mean in the real document. It's entirely possible that this is a bad > > configuration on my part, which is simple to fix, and I'd be pleased to be > > corrected, or have my stupid mistake pointed out to me. Thanks very much in > > advance for your patience. > > > > Bleed is the area 'outside' the page, where graphic elements that are meant > to span to the very edge of the page will have to extend over the page > area. This portion will be cut away in the late finishing stages. It is > meant to avoid a white strip of paper that the guillotine would leave there > if the paper is not exactly cut on the cutting marks. We need a 'buffer', > this is the bleed. > > The glue area is actually 'inside' the page. It's part of the inner margin > where there should be no printing element. This area dissolves into the > inner margin, actually. > > The bleed area is set in the Create New document. By the way, 6 mm is > pretty large for this as the usual measure for bleed is 3 mm. But 6 mm is > not bad anyway. There is no field in the application where one could file > the glue area as this is part of the page itself. It?s only an information > that is good to know and that is worth mentionning because it can affect > what you see on the page. > > I hope I got your questionning right. Let me know. > > Louis > > > > > -- > > Ciao > > > > Richard Foley > > > > http://www.rfi.net/books.html > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: Document-1.sla > > Type: application/x-scribus > > Size: 15547 bytes > > Desc: not available > > URL: < > > http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20120426/61890b2c/attachment.bin > > > > > ___ > > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > See also: > > http://wiki.scribus.net > > http://forums.scribus.net > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20120425/79c58651/attachment.html> > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net
