Hi Guys,

Yes, it's me and my little PDF brochure job that turned out so well that the client wants more pages, and everything printed. But it wasn't designed for print and is driving me crazy.

I was trained in Quark, so have managed to wrassle the Pantone, which I neednt have done because as mwenz says, a lot of print shops would rather RGB and sort your colour out themselves. I repeat YOU KNOW I SUFFERED BRAIN DAMAGE AFTER A MEDICAL ACCIDENT. Guys, I am finding something so silly really difficult. The client wants an EU A4 brochure wire bound. I cannot for the life of me work out where the margins should go, to make myself left and right hand page templates. The page is 210 x 297 of course. The bleed is 3mm, of course. And something obscure from the printer says allow a safe text area of 4mm, and that the punched area is 10mm from the bound edge. So. It seems easy, doesn't it. But you don't have brain damage. It's the bleed and punched area that are confusing me. They have a pdf graphic which seems to show the opposite of what they are saying.

Guys, faced with this information, where would you put your guides for left and right, and is Xara doing the bleed, if checked? Nothing re. print in Xara is clear. Also, and I find this very strange. Unless I have missed something, there is no brochure template that I can follow. They all seemed to have identical pages, as if they would never be bound.

The printer requires each page separately, which is a blessing. But I am frozen in the headlights here, and some of the images already need altering because of the clients change of mind, and I am scared of finding myself having to start from scratch again.

Any help you can give very gratefully appreciated.

Ali