Showing the Bleed, Crop, and Registration Marks in Page Layouts

You can turn on indicators to see where your bleed is set on a page, as well as crop and registration marks.

• Bleed The bleed is the area beyond the edge of the page where printing occurs. Professional printers use the bleed to prevent a final trimmed document from having unprinted areas along the edge of the document. You can set the size of the bleed in the Page Properties dialog. See Specifying the Page Bleed Size.
• Crop Marks These are thin vertical and horizontal lines that show the edges of the page, where it will be trimmed by the printer. The location of crop marks are determined by the page size you specify.
• Registration Marks These are small cross-hair target icons shown next to crop marks. Each color in the final output is printed on its own layer. Therefore, in order to make sure the colors are matched up accurately, printers use registration marks to align plates on the press.

How to Show the Bleed, Crop, and Registration Marks

1. Open a page in a page layout.
2. In the local toolbar, click .
3. From the drop-down, select Bleed.