re: Convert publications to PDF for commercial printing

Bob deLaubenfels — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:43:03 GMT

Hey MJ - My apologies for not getting back to you sooner. I suspect that your copyright text is pushed to an nonprintable area for your printer. Check out this article for the steps to determine your printer's nonprintable area:

office.microsoft.com/.../set-margins-for-pages-or-text-boxes-in-publisher-HA101794582.aspx

re: Convert publications to PDF for commercial printing

mjpalm — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:16:47 GMT

Hello Bob,

Had a question about the "bleed"

I have a 2010 Publisher document that has a line of "Copyright" text at the bottom. I'm sure you have seen this on various documentation. In Publisher, I set my top, bottom, left, right margins at zero. I can print it to a jpeg and pdf, but can't get the "Copyright" line at the bottom to print when I use Save & Send, Create PDF/XPS Document, hti the "Create PDF/XPS" button. From here, a save file name screen comes up where I can hit the "Options..." button at the bottom of the screen. The Publish Options dialog box comes up where I can hit the "Print Options..." button. The Print Options dialog box comes up where I can check off "Allow bleeds", and then hit OK. Then I hit the Publish button and the document prints out fine from here in PDF format.

When I print to just my HP Color LaserJet CP2025 printer, I cannot get it to print (bleed) the "Copyright" line at them bottom of the page. The "Copyright" line is close to the buttom, but not to the edge.

Is this a fuction of my printer driver not being able to print the bleed close to the edge of the page? I duplex the document, so I like the fuctionality that Publisher 2010 gives me on printing. Do I need to get a printer that prints to the margins?

Any insight into this... would be greatly apprciated.

Thanks

-mjpalm