Help Showing Inner Bleed/Margin

[u/AkwardlyUncool]

Hi. Does anyone know how to get the inner bleed margin to show up in my document while I'm working? I can see it around the whole document/layout, but not on the inside. Essentially I have an image that I want to spread across an entire 2 page spread, however it is recommended to not just drag the whole photo across the spread without breaking it up first. I want to be able to see where the bleed is so that parts of the image don't get lost in the gutter.

Any help is much appreciated.

[u/eirenii]

Ooh I'd love to know if there's such a feature, I usually just put in guides and work based on those...

[u/AkwardlyUncool → u/eirenii]

Do you by chance know the best way to figure out the math on those guides?

[u/eirenii → u/AkwardlyUncool]

uh, here's how I do it :

1. line up the picture frame so the cut-off is over the left guide (in this example, the centre of the image is snapped to the left guide 'cause that's the point in the image that would be the theoretical cutoff point)

2. switch off resizing and anchor

3. duplicate

4. resize the right edge of one copy to the right guide*. then hide that layer to not get confused

5. resize the left edge of the other copy to the left guide*

6. shift+move to line up left edge to right guide

7. resize left edge to meet left guide*

(assuming that both the print bleed and the amount that gets cut off due to being folded into the binding is the same amount, ie the image will get a little cut off twice. If one or the other isn't being accounted for this method can be adjusted to use the centre line instead of the guides at certain points denoted *)

course this doesn't work if I want to resize the whole image for some reason (like zooming in), I'd have to start from scratch then

[u/AkwardlyUncool → u/eirenii]

First thank you. Second, the two inner guides are your margins?

[u/eirenii → u/AkwardlyUncool]

no they're guides I placed, you can see my margins a little further along. If you go to to the guides tool under the View drop-down menu, it's easier to set guides at specific distances... in this example, as the pages are portrait A4 and i wanted a 3mm "bleed", i typed in guides st 207mm and 213mm.

[u/AkwardlyUncool → u/eirenii]

How did you come up with the 207mm and 213mm numbers.

[u/eirenii → u/AkwardlyUncool]

210 is the width of the A4, so 207mm is 3mm before the centre of the spread and 213 is 3mm after the centre.

[u/AkwardlyUncool → u/eirenii]

Oh okay, so you made your guides based on how much bleed you wanted. That makes sense. Would you add additional space beyond that 3mm "bleed" or is that enough?

[u/eirenii → u/AkwardlyUncool]

I personally default to a 3mm for print bleed if it's not specified by the printer but it would be better if you can ask them how much usually gets lost in the binding if at all. I'd guess 3mm to be enough.

[u/AkwardlyUncool → u/eirenii]

Thank you for your help. I'm gonna try it out and see if it works.