Working With Bleed: The Work Environment

The Design Parameters panel

These button are active during the modes for marking the (un)important areas and the subsequent bleed generation.

	Icon	Name	What It Does
01		View Front	Makes the design's front side face you on the screen.
02		View Back	Makes the design's rear side face you on the screen.
03		Same Front Rear	Turns on the mode in which you make the front and the rear bleeds identical. You can do this while generating bllleds for the first time or when you have different bleeds and want to apply one of them apply to both side.
04		Different Front Rear	Turns on the mode in which you make the front and the rear bleeds different. You can do this mostly when you have identical bleeds and want to apply a different one on each side.
05		Set All Regions	Opens a dialog box in which you can set a default indication of the important and unimportant zones.
06		No Artwork Area	Turns on a mode in which you can set zones that will not contain artworks.
07		Unimportant Area	Turns on a mode in which you can set unimportant zones.
08		Important Area	Turns on a mode in which you can set important zones.
09		Generate Bleed	Applies the bleed as set by (un)important zones. A dialog box appears in which you set the necessary bleed offsets.
10		View Image	Turns on/off the display of images on the design.
11	Article Dropdown	Applied Article	A list of the available articles that can be applied to the active design side.
12		Generate Bleed by Levels of Importance	Turns on the mode for generating bleeds and displays the bleed-related toolbar above the graphical area. Once the mode is active, you can begin marking out areas of importance, bleed offsets and other bleed-related procedures.
13		Modify the Bleed	Turns on the mode for modifying an already-generated bleed.
14		Clippath Conflict Resolution	In layout view, starts the mode for resolving conflicts between overlapping bleeds and finding the optimal array.
15		Replicate/Restore Bleed

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The Bleed Modification mode

The following buttons are active when you turn on the bleed modification mode.

	Icon	Name	What It Does
16		Explode Bleed	Decomposes the bleed contour to individual objects, on which you can work separately. You can view the objects in the Layers & Objects tabular view.
17		Remove Bleed	Removes the entire bleed on the active side.
18		Copy Bleed to Other Side	Copies the bleed on the active side and applies it also on the reverse side.

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Resolving Clippath mode

	Icon	Resolution Method	What It Does
19		Automatic	Opens a dialog box in which you set conditions of how you want Prinect to process the bleed conflicts.
20		Previous/Next Conflict	Takes you to the next conflict or back to the most recent one.
21		Zoom to Conflict	Zooms into the conflict you point to.
22		Middle Path	Applies the Middle Path resolution technique.
23		Win/Loss	Applies the Win/Loss resolution technique.
24		Split Path With Line	Applies the Split Path resolution technique.
25		Draw Split Path	Draws a path spliting the conflict in half.
27		Modify Bleed	Applies the Modify Bleed resolution technique.
28		View Images	Switches on and off the display of images applied onto the panels.
29		Clipped Images	Displays the images applied onto the panels in their clipped state.

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