I work at a print shop and we spend 95% of our day fixing everyone's badly set up files. It's so frustrating and time consuming. with all the AI and everything, I was just hoping some day there would be an easy fix for multiple page documents as well as two sided docs. I'm not sure how long this has been available, but as a design (mostly self taught) for over 20 years, why am I just discovering this amazing feature? This is going to transform our office workflow! Thank you for presenting it in such a clear and concise way! Genius!
You’re very welcome. A lot of these features are built in to Pitstop, but not everyone has or can afford that plug-in, so I figured I’d make some videos to show preflights capabilities as a stand alone built in solution. Glad you’re getting use. Thanks for watching.
Thanks, I took a look at pitstop but it didn't seem very user friendly from my graphic design thought process. This acrobat one made much more sense to me, though, I wish they had a generative fill option vs the mirroring because it would look a lot more natural in the bleed added. Maybe one day soon? @@miketheprintman
@@jennrawlings8764 I would doubt something like that would be built directly in Acrobat, just because Adobe has put those features directly in Illustrator and Photoshop now. I know the mirroring doesn't always work either, but if you can do it for 75% of your jobs then I think it's totally worth it.
Well, one could hope. We get hundreds of files a week that have no bleed. Every Realtor thinks they can be a designer, and we have a LOT of them (trying to save money, so they use publisher, word, canva, and who knows what else). Brochures, booklets, 2 sided business cards. We can't properly add bleed to photographic backgrounds (most of our issues) in Illustrator, that's good for one color backgrounds or simple vector ones, but that's rare for us. Photoshop isn't made for multi documents, so we have to split the job, and when we bring art into photoshop we have found that the quality of text degrades every time. So we take that and do generative bleeds, then save out and then regroup in Acrobat so we can send into fiery in one file. Allllll dayyyyyy longgggggg. We've tried asking people a million times to add bleeds, but they don't. they won't. So if we want the job, we either fix it or print with a border which they never want. This is the one print shop in my 20 years of being a designer that will actually go into every clients file and fix them just so we can print the job. I just wish there were a multipage application like acrobat that would allow you to generate fill the bleed so we could do everything in one step without having to separate, degrade text, and deal with all of that. Any how, sorry for the rant, this is just such an issue that I deal with daily that it becomes very frustrating, especially when you ask your clients who send files weekly, but just won't listen to your request to do them correctly. You take the time to offer instruction, to help, even ask them to send Canva file link so you can fix, but they are seriously "too busy" to deal with that. Sigh. First world problems I guess. @@miketheprintman
@@jennrawlings8764 I hear you, for sure. I've dealt with it my whole career as well. And you're right, most of the time if you want the job they want you to wave the magic wand and fix it yourself. Well, hopefully little tricks like this video will make things a little easier on you. Keep fighting the good fight.
It doesn't work for all situations, but I find it useful for a lot of times when I need to add bleed quickly to multiple pages of a PDF. Glad you liked the video.
Thanks another great video. Can you please show how to add bleed to a PDF with crop marks but no bleed? ie: white space where the bleed should be? Alternatively how does one add crop marks in Acrobat to the bled PDF you just created in this video?
I work in a print shop and this is super handy! Thank you so much for this video. I wanted to know if you know of a way to create a fix up to do 2 things at the same time. What i am looking to do is to reflect the bleeds like in this video and to add crop marks while only using one fix up instead of 2. Do you know of any way I can do that?
First off, thanks for watching, glad the preflight is helpful for you. 2nd, yes, you can apply multiple fixups at once using the action wizard in Acrobat. I'm actually going to be doing a new video either today or tomorrow that will show how to use multiple preflights at one time. However, until then, search out Acrobat Action Wizard online and you should find some good information on it.
Will this create colored pages edges for a book? A thing call fore edge printing. So, books have colored pages edges or pictures on the page edges? Thank you!
No, it won’t. For fore edge printing you would need to set up a completely different file based on the book’s thickness and height. Usually it would be best to contact your printer to get specs on the dimensions required for the fore edge artwork.
First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the video. Helped me a lot. If you can help me with anything else. When I bleed, there is a white line separating the bleed from the image. Is it possible to delete this line? I am Brazilian I do not speak english. Google Translate
Thank you for the comment. The reason the white line shows up is that the original pdf probably has a small bleed along the edge. You may need to first crop the image to size, then run the preflight to add the full bleed.
Thank you. However, I don’t know if a way to do that from within PitStop automatically. There may be that functionality, but I don’t know it. Normally you need to calculate the spine width based on a formula based on the paper type and number of pages. I’ll try to do a video on that.
@@miketheprintman Thank you for your reply, But unfortunately you cant understand what i am saying. example, I have a pdf file this file has cutting mark and spine mark in cention (ex. 6mm), I need to resize this 6 mm to 9 mm and also trim size will be change. Just want to modify spine size. not manually, using custom action. Thank you. ua-cam.com/video/3hWD8NYQdHU/v-deo.html
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I work at a print shop and we spend 95% of our day fixing everyone's badly set up files. It's so frustrating and time consuming. with all the AI and everything, I was just hoping some day there would be an easy fix for multiple page documents as well as two sided docs. I'm not sure how long this has been available, but as a design (mostly self taught) for over 20 years, why am I just discovering this amazing feature? This is going to transform our office workflow! Thank you for presenting it in such a clear and concise way! Genius!
You’re very welcome. A lot of these features are built in to Pitstop, but not everyone has or can afford that plug-in, so I figured I’d make some videos to show preflights capabilities as a stand alone built in solution. Glad you’re getting use. Thanks for watching.
Thanks, I took a look at pitstop but it didn't seem very user friendly from my graphic design thought process. This acrobat one made much more sense to me, though, I wish they had a generative fill option vs the mirroring because it would look a lot more natural in the bleed added. Maybe one day soon? @@miketheprintman
@@jennrawlings8764 I would doubt something like that would be built directly in Acrobat, just because Adobe has put those features directly in Illustrator and Photoshop now. I know the mirroring doesn't always work either, but if you can do it for 75% of your jobs then I think it's totally worth it.
Well, one could hope. We get hundreds of files a week that have no bleed. Every Realtor thinks they can be a designer, and we have a LOT of them (trying to save money, so they use publisher, word, canva, and who knows what else). Brochures, booklets, 2 sided business cards. We can't properly add bleed to photographic backgrounds (most of our issues) in Illustrator, that's good for one color backgrounds or simple vector ones, but that's rare for us. Photoshop isn't made for multi documents, so we have to split the job, and when we bring art into photoshop we have found that the quality of text degrades every time. So we take that and do generative bleeds, then save out and then regroup in Acrobat so we can send into fiery in one file. Allllll dayyyyyy longgggggg. We've tried asking people a million times to add bleeds, but they don't. they won't. So if we want the job, we either fix it or print with a border which they never want. This is the one print shop in my 20 years of being a designer that will actually go into every clients file and fix them just so we can print the job. I just wish there were a multipage application like acrobat that would allow you to generate fill the bleed so we could do everything in one step without having to separate, degrade text, and deal with all of that. Any how, sorry for the rant, this is just such an issue that I deal with daily that it becomes very frustrating, especially when you ask your clients who send files weekly, but just won't listen to your request to do them correctly. You take the time to offer instruction, to help, even ask them to send Canva file link so you can fix, but they are seriously "too busy" to deal with that. Sigh. First world problems I guess. @@miketheprintman
@@jennrawlings8764 I hear you, for sure. I've dealt with it my whole career as well. And you're right, most of the time if you want the job they want you to wave the magic wand and fix it yourself. Well, hopefully little tricks like this video will make things a little easier on you. Keep fighting the good fight.
The multiple other "solutions" I found online weren't helpful at all - but yours was straightforward and actually helpful. Thank you!
Glad it came in handy. Thanks for watching.
Oh hell yeah!! Multipage bleed fixups have always been a difficult problem to fix. Thanks for sharing this.
No problem. Hope it will help.
I have been doing this manually for years! Very helpful and again shows how much is possible in Acrobat.
It doesn't work for all situations, but I find it useful for a lot of times when I need to add bleed quickly to multiple pages of a PDF. Glad you liked the video.
Thank you very much for this video. It was absolutely perfect for assisting me with this annoying task.
Glad it helped.
Thanks another great video. Can you please show how to add bleed to a PDF with crop marks but no bleed? ie: white space where the bleed should be? Alternatively how does one add crop marks in Acrobat to the bled PDF you just created in this video?
I’ll see if I can make another video based off this. I will reply back when I can get that video posted and uploaded. Thanks for watching.
Finally made a follow up video to this for adding the crop marks. Here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/R9JiSuruBQk/v-deo.html
Thank you SO much !! I think this has resolved my needed edits!!!
Glad it worked for you.
I work in a print shop and this is super handy! Thank you so much for this video. I wanted to know if you know of a way to create a fix up to do 2 things at the same time. What i am looking to do is to reflect the bleeds like in this video and to add crop marks while only using one fix up instead of 2. Do you know of any way I can do that?
First off, thanks for watching, glad the preflight is helpful for you. 2nd, yes, you can apply multiple fixups at once using the action wizard in Acrobat. I'm actually going to be doing a new video either today or tomorrow that will show how to use multiple preflights at one time. However, until then, search out Acrobat Action Wizard online and you should find some good information on it.
See my latest video for how to apply multiple fixups in Acrobat:
ua-cam.com/video/ACKNII3wHKQ/v-deo.html
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Life saver omg! I appreciate it! God bless you! Wowowowowow! FINALLY!
Glad I could help. Thanks for watching.
Thank you! This is exactly what i needed 🙏
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks !! This method works very well
Thank you! You are my hero.
Glad I could help.
Will this create colored pages edges for a book? A thing call fore edge printing. So, books have colored pages edges or pictures on the page edges? Thank you!
No, it won’t. For fore edge printing you would need to set up a completely different file based on the book’s thickness and height. Usually it would be best to contact your printer to get specs on the dimensions required for the fore edge artwork.
First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the video. Helped me a lot. If you can help me with anything else. When I bleed, there is a white line separating the bleed from the image. Is it possible to delete this line?
I am Brazilian I do not speak english. Google Translate
Thank you for the comment. The reason the white line shows up is that the original pdf probably has a small bleed along the edge. You may need to first crop the image to size, then run the preflight to add the full bleed.
Thanks for this!
Glad you find it useful.
Hello, I am your fan, Can you help me one thing, How to resize spine of a pdf file using pitstop pro 2019 via actions automatically.
Thank you. However, I don’t know if a way to do that from within PitStop automatically. There may be that functionality, but I don’t know it. Normally you need to calculate the spine width based on a formula based on the paper type and number of pages. I’ll try to do a video on that.
@@miketheprintman Thank you for your reply, But unfortunately you cant understand what i am saying. example, I have a pdf file this file has cutting mark and spine mark in cention (ex. 6mm), I need to resize this 6 mm to 9 mm and also trim size will be change. Just want to modify spine size. not manually, using custom action. Thank you. ua-cam.com/video/3hWD8NYQdHU/v-deo.html
@@debnathmriganka2010 ah, I see. However, I don’t have access to PitStop to test this out, unfortunately.
life saver! thank you :)
Glad it helped!