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• • February 14, 2024 at 8:56 am #14399868
    Phyllis Utter

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    Sorry if this has been asked before, but I’m at press time and trying to figure this out! How do I turn off Adjust Layout in the Document Properties dialog? I’m trying to add slug but keep getting an error message that the page won’t fit. There doesn’t seem to be a way to turn this off (clicking it doesn’t get me to a box where turning anything off helps).

    

    thanks, Phyllis

  • February 14, 2024 at 9:43 am #14399876
    David Blatner

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    I don’t think there is a way to turn off Adjust Layout in the Document Setup dialog box. That button you see isn’t actually an on/off switch — it’s a way to open the Adjust Layout dialog box. Basically, it’s a way to get to use Adjust Layout INSTEAD of document setup.

    What is happening when you try to add a slug area? Maybe the slug area needs to be smaller? (When I try adding a slug area to a page that size, it says it has to be smaller than 36p)

  • February 14, 2024 at 11:04 am #14399878
    Phyllis Utter

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    Thanks for the response! If I make *any* adjustments to the slug or the bleed, I get the error message that “This page size does not fit with the current margin and column settings. Select the appropriate pages in the Pages panel and then adjust using the Margins and Columns dialog box.” That error message is the same even if I’m decreasing the bleed (I was trying to set a slug of 3p). And I think it may be because there are some weird margin settings on certain pages, but in the past I could adjust the bleed and slug of a document regardless of what the margin settings were. They weren’t interdependent as far as I could tell. I’m glad I put enough bleed as I think I’d have to rebuild the document if I didn’t. As it is, I can’t add the slug that the printer would have liked.

  • February 14, 2024 at 11:09 am #14399879
    Steve Davis

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    I would suggest that you have a parent/master page with margins that prohibit you from doing this.
    Try creating a new document with your chosen slug and see what happens.
    Alternatively (and this may be counter-intuitive)… make sure all your margins are zero, add slug then reset your margins.

  • February 14, 2024 at 11:19 am #14399880
    Phyllis Utter

    Participant

    I’ll give that a try when I can. Right now there are too many pages and too little time. :-( But I don’t recall this ever being an issue in the past. I’ve changed bleeds on documents many times without ever having a question of margins. Why would it matter when the bleed and slug are outside the page?

    • February 15, 2024 at 1:53 am #14399918
      Steve Davis

      Participant

      You did this doc with data merge for 55 business cards?
      The slug is for whom? If you can’t add it then I suggest annotating the file with a layer and writing over the top and printing sheets with thumbnails.
      Obviously, delete that layer and/or make it non-printing afterwards.

  • February 14, 2024 at 12:05 pm #14399881
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    That does seem very strange to me. Changing the margins can be an issue (as Steve pointed out), but JUST changing bleed and slug shouldn’t cause that kind of error.

    It is possible that there’s some weirdness going on with the file, so perhaps try exporting document as IDML and then opening that IDML file and trying again.

  • February 14, 2024 at 11:05 pm #14399904
    julika

    Member

    Thanks for the information!

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