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• • December 22, 2019 at 7:30 am #1218772
    San Jox

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    Hello, have a question about tri fold brochure design.
    How should i mark document for printing company, to be sure that they will fold it correctly?
    For myself I put guides where should they be folded, but when you export the PDF, there are no guides for them to fold .
    So do they already have some setting for folding bi fold/ tri fold designs or should I make something with document before sending?

  • December 23, 2019 at 2:44 am #14323396
    R Dol

    Member

    I use bleed and put a marker line that will show only on the bleed
    I don’t know of something better, anyone has a better idea?

  • December 23, 2019 at 12:52 pm #14323393
    San Jox

    Member

    So best way is to just manually draw dashed line ?
    And is it ok to but it in bleed area or should I place it in slug?

  • December 23, 2019 at 12:57 pm #14323392
    R Dol

    Member

    I would say outer bleed is OK

  • December 23, 2019 at 1:57 pm #14323391
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    You can put it in the bleed area or the slug area, but I I typically use a slug area because the bleed area is too small.

    However, note that if you have set up your trifold as 3 pages on a single spread, then you can just use the regular crop marks when making a PDF, and InDesign will draw the folder marks for you.

  • December 23, 2019 at 2:08 pm #14323390
    R Dol

    Member

    thanks! great idea

  • December 23, 2019 at 6:18 pm #14323389
    David Popham

    Participant

    David’s suggestion to use pages set up in a spread is also beneficial if your printer requires one panel, usually the right-most, to be slightly narrower than the other pages.

  • December 24, 2019 at 3:34 am #14323383
    San Jox

    Member

    Thanks all, lot of great information.

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