[scribus] refrase the problem: bleeds stay present in PDF with Clip to Page Margins

Louis Desjardins louis.desjardins at gmail.com
Sat May 12 13:10:58 UTC 2012


2012/5/12 <josfon at xs4all.nl>

> Trimbox is what I am looking for.
> But is that a option in Scribus?
> If it is, I can't find it!
> According to the official manual it is part of PDF/X-3.
> But I don't seem the PDF/X-3 option in PDF-export.
>
> So here comes another problem:
> Why doen't I have the PDF/X-3 option?
>

You need to activate Color Management in the Preference panel.

Louis

>
> Jos
>
> > 2012/5/11 ale rimoldi <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch>
> >
> >> hi jos,
> >>
> >> > I made a book with a lot of page covering pictures.
> >> > So I added a bleed. This PDF was printed by a professional printer.
> >> >
> >> > I also would like a PDF for the use in a website, with no bleeds.
> >> >
> >> > I thought that exporting to PDF with the option "Clip to Page Margins"
> >> > checked, would always give me a PDF clipped the page margins and
> >> > without the slight encroachments.
> >> > Thats how I remember it from working with 1.3.7.
> >> > But it seems that I was wrong about that.
> >>
> >> looks like a sane use of that option...
> >>
> >> if nobody is against to change "clip to printer margins" (shouldn't it
> >> be renamed to "clip to page border"?) to ignore the bleeds (and
> >> generally the whole pre-press tab), i guess that you
> >> should fill a feature request on http://bugs.scribus.net .
> >>
> >
> > We should stick with PDF terminology.
> >
> > TrimBox (once trimmed on the crop marks, the actual page format)
> > BleedBox (bleed zone)
> >
> > Basically, TrimBox ignores totally the bleed and show you the page how it
> > will look when cut to final size. This is what you are looking for here.
> > That way, you’ll see the exact bleed effect.
> >
> > Louis
> >
> >>
> >> or are there uses of the option which would suffer from this change?
> >>
> >> ciao
> >> a.l.e
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