Am Freitag, 6. Juli 2012, 19:29:02 schrieb john Culleton: > 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.
This is a 76 page booklet. I shall do this for the cover though as the print shop prefers an A4 page size for the cover. > Incidentally I don't use the Scribus bleed function. I just > increse the dimensions to take care of the bleeds. That was my approach until I found the bleeds. It's much more convenient to work with bleeds if you have graphics which span over more than one page. Andreas H?nnebeck | email: acmh at gmx.de ----- privat ---- | www : http://www.huennebeck-online.de Fax/Anrufbeantworter: +49 (32 12) 1 26 24 06 PGP-Key: http://www.huennebeck-online.de/public_keys/pgp_andreas.asc GPG-Key: http://www.huennebeck-online.de/public_keys/andreas.asc