When exporting to PDF, I wish to eliminate entirely the bleed area. Is it possible to do so in inDesign?
Set your bleed settings to zero and make sure you have all printers marks turned off. The easiest way to do this is to choose the [High Quality Print] Preset in the PDF dialog box as a starting point. For most outputs that are not going to be commercially printed this preset should suffice anyway.
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? – Vincent Jun 25 '14 at 9:23pdf
s for years and I am unaware of the fact that the bleed is included even if you ask the export not to. Seems counterintuitive, esp. on a 'smallest file size' setting. – Vincent Jun 25 '14 at 9:29