Reply To: Change the shape of a polygon without effecting the angles?

Like Colleen, I also use the direct selection tool to do it. But in her first example of a “no no,” it would be impossible to get a bleed on that left-hand side. The solution for the top is spot-on.

We still get jobs from designers that forget about the bleeds, but those are far and few between now (thank God).

When they are wrong, we have to fix as we are the typesetting house [thus we are responsible in the end] and there is no way in hell we’re going to pay someone $120 an hour to fix something (No offense to you Colleen). :) We will make sure everything is done correctly.

And sometimes if a particular shape won’t bleed the way that is needed, we convince the designer to let us make it larger, or to reposition the image on the page.

Sometimes we’ll just bleed off the top and have the left/right side of it in the safe margin (i.e., 3/8 inches from trim)