Snap to bleed

[Ampa]

Is it possible to get objects to snap to the bleed?

I can only snap to the page but would have thought it a common requirement to snap background gradients / textures to the bleed size.

Of course a work around is to set up guides or draw my own bleed rectangle, but that rather defeats the point of offering a native bleed?!?

[gwpriester]

This is not a rhetorical question, because I don't know the answer. But what if your bleed amount is the same as your grid spacing? Then you could use Snap to Grid.

[Ampa]

@Gary - A clever suggestion, but I'm not sure it would work in all instances...

Let's say my bleed is 3mm (so I make a 3mm grid) - unless my page dimensions as also divisible by 3mm the bleed (at least on the 'far' edges) will not fall on a grid line.

[mwenz]

I guess I am old-fashioned.

I typically make a design page the size of design + crop marks + skosh. I set guidelines for the trim page size and bleed extents. Bled elements simply snap to the bleed extents guidelines.

Take care, Mike

[Ampa]

@Mike - Being old fashioned is sometimes the best way to go... It just niggles me that there is a feature provided which doesn't quite work; At least not the way I expect / want it to work!