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18. 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.
The letterhead for this project will be printed commercially; the printer said the design
can safely bleed on all four sides, and their equipment requires a 1/8″ bleed allowance.
In this case, you want all four edges to have the same bleed, so the chain icon should be
active to constrain all four Bleed fields to the same value.

If this button reads
“More Options”, click
to show the Bleed
and Slug options.
When this icon shows two
unbroken links, changing any
linked field will apply the same
value to the other three fields.
When a chain icon shows two
broken links, you can change
any one field without affecting
the other related fields.

19. Make sure the chain icon to the right of the Slug fields is active, and then
change the first Slug field to 0. Note:
A slug is an area outside of the bleed, where designers typically add job information that A slug is an element
will not appear in the final printed piece. (You’ll use this slug area in Project 5: Ireland entirely outside the page
Travel Brochure.)
area, but included in the
You don’t need to type the full “0p0” notation when you change measurements using the final output. The slug
default units. Zero pica is still zero, so you don’t need to worry about converting units. area can be used for file/
plate information, special
Activate the link registration marks,
icon and change the
Slug values to 0. color bars, and/or other
elements that need to be
20. Click OK to create the new document. printed on the press sheet,
but do not appear within
The document appears, filling the available space in the document window. Your view the job area.
percentage might appear different than what you see in our images.

The page edge is marked
by a solid black line.

Pink margin guides appear
at the measurements you
defined in the New
Document dialog box.

A red bleed guide outside
the page edge marks the
defined 1/8” bleed.

30 Project 1: Letterhead Design