On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:35:29 +0200 Andreas H?nnebeck <acmh at gmx.de> wrote:
> I'm working on a twofold brochure in A5 format (148 x 210 mm) with 3 > mm bleeds on all sides (154 x 216 mm) according to the advice of the > print shop. If I create a colored text frame which shall touch the > border of the page it must be so big that it reaches the border of > the 3mm bleed. > > If a frame fills the page from left to right it must be 154 mm wide. > The document > > http://www.huennebeck-online.de/download/a5.sla > > contains two such frames on two pages side by side. If I create a PDF > with or without bleed, e.g. > > http://www.huennebeck-online.de/download/a5-with-bleeds.pdf > http://www.huennebeck-online.de/download/a5-without-bleeds.pdf > > then I would expect that each page contains only its own single > frame. However both PDFs contain remnants of the frame of the other > page as well. How can this be avoided, other than setting the bleed > on the inner side to 0? > > Andreas H?nnebeck | email: acmh at gmx.de For book covers I create just one page with bleeda all around. On that page I have three panels front, back and spine. Pethaps you could reduce your brochure to just one page. double width. Incidentally I don't use the Scribus bleed function. I just increse the dimensions to take care of the bleeds. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police Procedural and Expose: "Death Wore Black" "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
