Post by tasmanianartist on Oct 11, 2020 6:53:27 GMT
Had some time to kill today and dabbled with the re-upload of one of my older photo books (not the huge square ones, but near enough). There is a somewhat smaller 'US Letter' size with can sort-of take the interior - tho with white margin outside and inside - never mind. But again this: the US Letter trim size is a 'supported' trim size - so I re-sized the ex-Lulu downloaded PDF to fit the supported US Letter size (landscape orientation). That's when the 'we added a white bleed...' surfaced again. I've taken screenshots to demonstrate - I have no idea why a supported trim size needs a white rim - either reducing my PDF to accommodate the white edge, or increasing the size of my PDF with a white edge. Any ideas? Clearly by having my colour images edge to edge (in this case top edge to bottom edge) I intend to have colour edge to edge without a white rim around them. Why then the notice to tell me if I want that (edge to edge image), I need to reupload a PDF that fits this requirement - when in fact my original PDF already fitted that requirement ... completely confused issue ...
Screenshots compilation order: top left, Lulu's supported trim size - top right, my PDF to the supported trim size (US Letter) - middle, Lulu's 'added white bleed...' note - bottom, 'print ready' PDF downloaded from the 'design' stage after upload process.
Edit - another post reported the same issues; the gentleman gave 'trim size' measurement of uploaded file, and measurement after Lulu having added the white rim - the measurements are: uploaded file: 10.8cm x 17.46cm [108mm x 174.6mm] - file size after white rim added: 114mm x 181mm - that means it is a 5mm / 6.4mm addition - which means the 'white rim' means absolutely nothing to the uploading file. It confuses the entire issue and does not give a reason for the note's existence in the first place - how can anyone make a 'edge to edge full bleed' document if the measurement required does not include it? Doh ... anyway ... moving right along ...