Bleed issue in Xara Designer Pro

[Zaahir]

Hi Guys,

I need some help with the bleed in Xara Designer Pro. Initially when I set the bleed the edge of the design used to go pass the cut lines.
Now the design ends exactly where the cut lines are as in attached pic. How to do I change this?

Thanks
Zaahir

[gwpriester]

Hello Zaahir

I just tried this in Designer Pro X-15 and I get all the printer marks including the bleed.

Did you enable the bleed margin in Page Options first?

[Zaahir]

Hello Zaahir

I just tried this in Designer Pro X-15 and I get all the printer marks including the bleed.

Did you enable the bleed margin in Page Options first?

That was the problem. Thanks

[gwpriester]

(It was a lucky guess)

[bubbbab]

Interesting add note to this. With a normal .12" bleed on a larger 24" x 16" project, everything is fine. As soon as I bump the bleed to .5" or more, the printer marks do not export to PDF commercial. Adding manual crops isn;t the end of the world, just an interesting limitation.
Steve...

[gwpriester]

1/2 inch bleed is a bit of overkill, no? You would have to be working with a very sloppy printer if you needed 1/2".