Generating bleed

When you place artwork onto a packaging design, you need to define the areas that are vital for the placement of artwork. Once defined, these areas are then used for the generation of bleed. If then clip path conflicts occur in the layout, the defined areas are used to resolve them automatically.

NOTE: If some conflict resolutions are applied to an existing bleed, this bleed is locked. Therefore, when you start editing the bleed, a warning appears notifying about the previously locked bleed and offering an option to unlock it and lose the clip path conflict resolution done to that moment.

To generate bleed

NOTE: The procedure that follows is the automatic way of generating a bleed. If for some reasons you want to generate bleed by hand, use the modes for offset or hull. Functionally, the manually and automatically generated bleeds are identical.

  1. On the Layout toolbar, click Generate Bleed by Levels of Importance .

A contextual edit bar appears above the graphical area.

  1. Select the areas on which no artwork will be placed: click No Artwork , and then, in the design, consecutively click the areas that will be free of artwork.
  2. Select critical artwork areas: in the contextual edit bar click Important Area , and then, in the design, consecutively click the respective areas.
  3. Select less critical artwork areas: in the contextual edit bar click Unimportant Area , and then, in the design, consecutively click the respective areas.
  4. (Optional) If you want to mark the entire design as the same type of clipping area, click Set All Regions .

NOTE: The Set default clipping level dialog box will appear, in which you can set a default clipping area that the program will use in future.

  1. After you have designated the important and unimportant areas, click Generate Bleed .

The Bleed Generation Options dialog box appears.

  1. Under Bleed Offset enter values for the bleed distances for the important and unimportant areas. NOTE: Normally, the value for the important areas is greater than that for the unimportant areas.
  2. Under Round with choose whether to use arcs or lines for the angle roundings of the bleed.
  3. To generate the bleed, click OK.

An example of generated bleed on a design.