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19. Click the arrow button to the left of the Bleed and Slug heading.
20. Make sure the chain icon to the right of the
Bleed fields is active (unbroken links), then
change the first Bleed field to 0.125 (the
decimal equivalent of 1/8). Press Tab to apply
the new Bleed value to all four sides.
Bleed is the amount an object needs to extend past the The four Bleed
edge of the artboard or page to meet the mechanical fields are linked.
requirements of commercial printing. Changing one value
changes all four fields.
The letterhead for this project will be printed
commercially; the printer said the design can safely
bleed on all four sides, and its equipment requires a
1/8″ bleed allowance.

21. Make sure all four Slug fields are set to 0.
A slug is an area outside of the bleed, where designers typically add job information
that will not appear in the final printed piece. The slug area can be used for file/plate
information, special registration marks, color bars, and/or other elements that need to be
printed on the press sheet, but do not appear within the job area.
Note:
22. Click Create to create the new document.
The color of the
The document appears, filling the available space in the document window. (Your view pasteboard (the area
percentage might appear different than what you see in our images.) The letter-size page around the artboard)
edge is represented by a dark black line.
defaults to match the
As we explained in the Interface chapter, the panels you see depend on what was brightness of the user
done the last time you (or someone else) used the application. Because workspace interface. You can
arrangement is such a personal preference, we tell you what panels you need to use, but change this setting to
we don’t tell you where to place them. show a white pasteboard

In our screen shots, we typically float panels over the relevant area of the document so by unchecking Match
we can focus the images on the most important part of the file at any particular point. Pasteboard to Theme
As you complete the projects in this book, feel free to dock the panels, grouped or Color in the Interface
ungrouped, iconized or expanded, however you prefer. pane of the Preferences
dialog box.

The name you
defined appears in
the document tab.

Pink guides represent
the defined margins.

The page edge is
marked by a black line.

Red guides represent
the defined bleeds.

28 Project 1: Letterhead Design