Adobe offers a great help section on how to set-up your document with bleeds using InDesign.
If you are using a page layout program like Adobe InDesign, and want certain pages to bleed, you will need to include the bleeds and crop marks when you export your file as a PDF file. Adobe does offer a free trial for 30 days, and has monthly plans as well. We suggest using a more robust piece of software like Adobe InDesign. If you are using Microsoft Word, or any other word processing program, it can be very difficult to set up bleeds correctly and have everything line up evenly throughout the interior of the book. Also remember to select Mirror Margins, when setting up your custom page size in Microsoft Word. 125' from each side to give you a finished trim size of 5.5' x 8.5'.įor a professional interior book layout, we recommend that you keep any elements you don't want trimmed off, at least a. 125' to all four sides of your document, which will create a 5.75' x 8.75' page size. 125' to each side of the document to accommodate for the excess paper that will be trimmed off.įor example: If you want a 5.5' x 8.5' finished trim size, you will need to add.
If you want the interior pages to bleed (where the artwork goes right to the edge of the paper) and are using Microsoft Word, or any other word processing program, you will need to add.
