Gabriola Graphics Blog

Here you'll find posts relating to a bunch of graphic and web stuff, a little hardware or software stuff, and the odd life pro tip.

Welcome! Here you'll find posts relating to a bunch of graphic and web stuff, a little hardware or software stuff, and the odd life pro tip.

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What Is Bleed?

What Is Bleed?

I find myself regularly communicating to clients why they need a print-ready file that has “bleed” surrounding their design. Here’s the scoop! What Is Bleed? Bleed can be defined as “extra area” outside of your final design dimensions. As...

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Adobe InDesign: Non-Printing Layers

Adobe InDesign: Printing Blank Pages?

When printing or exporting to a PDF from Adobe InDesign I sometimes run across pages coming out blank. I don’t mean the odd blank page in the document or one or two blank pages at the end, but rather the whole document is blank, or each page is missing a large...

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