thesewinglady Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Hello. I have margins set up on my artboards to 10mm bottom and right. The blue guidelines show the margins are set up. When printing, and/or exporting to PDF, the design elements that fall into the margin, still print. Does anyone know how I can stop this from happening? I want any design elements that fall outside of the margin to move into the next printable area. Pic of the exported PDF to show what I mean. Thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Are you confusing Margin with Bleed? Bleed is the part of the paper which is trimmed off after printing. Margins are suggestions for help in designing what will be on the paper, inside and outside the margin is still on the paper after printing and trimming. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesewinglady Posted March 29, 2022 Author Share Posted March 29, 2022 Hi Old Bruce, Thankyou I think I was. Ive changed to using bleed now, but the same thing is still happening when I export the image. Design elements are being printed in the 10mm bleed area. I will post a photo of my exported PDF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 4 hours ago, thesewinglady said: Design elements are being printed in the 10mm bleed area. The reason for having a bleed area is that it contains elements which are not essential to the design, but which are printed on the border (bleed area) outside the actual page area to allow for any errors when printing/trimming the page. Basically the idea is that you print (say) an A4 page on paper that is slightly oversized, then trim it to exactly A4. The bleed area allows for any slight discrepancy when trimming the paper, so that you don't end up with a blank strip at the edge(s) of a page. Sorry, but I'm afraid I don't know enough about Artboards to suggest how you can do what you want. (If it is actually possible!) Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markw Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 Could you use a rectangle to clip the content of each Artboard, as in the attached example. Dose this give you what you want? Clipping.afdesign Quote macOS 10.15.7 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesewinglady Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 hmmmm maybe actually let me play around with this and see. If it works Ill get back to you thank you for your suggestion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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