Best practice for resizing and adding bleed

[DJS]

Hello,

Could anyone suggest the best action list/smart preflight to take a file, resize it to a defined size (not variable and always portrait) and add 3mm bleed.

I can get it working to a degree, but, for some reason, bleed isn't being added to all edges, or bleed gets added but the file does not resize

Thank you

[loicaigon]

Hi,

There are default Global Changes and Action Lists in PiTStop that will do just that.

You can even create a new Action List, record execution and run the default resources.
Or simply import them.

Also a quick run can be thought about.

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When bleed isn't added on all edges, it's most of the times because the content next to the trim is slightly out of the detection range. By Default detection is 0.01mm, so if content is 0.011mm away from the trim, it won't be considered for bleed generation.
An easy fix is to increase the value to something like 0.1 for example.

What is the correct value? The bigger value you set, then the more chances are that you stretch objects which shouldn't.

[DJS]

Thank you so much, sadly I am still struggling to create an action that checks a pdf is A5, if it is and has bleed then leave as it, if it does not have bleed add 3mm bleed, and if not A5 then resize and make sure that has 3mm bleed... this should be possible?

[DJS]

Needs to be able to be included in a PPP, is a quickrun importable into a PPP?

[loicaigon]

Hi,

No you cannot just import a Quick run inside a Preflight Profile. However, it is only possible to add Extra Actions.