: Margins changing from InDesign to PDF? What am I doing wrong? When I save my InDesign file as a PDF the margins are different when I open the PDF and off when I print. They are correct

@Nimeshi706

It appears as though you've included the bleed area when exporting to PDF. There are merely no "marks" to show you this. The margins haven't changed, but the bleed is included in the PDF, making it appear like there's more document there. Well, because there is, the bleed.

If I overlay your two screen shots on top of one another, and scale them to be relatively the same size, you can see the page sizes for the PDF match the bleed guides in the InDesign screenshot.



So, when exporting the PDF you'll want to ensure Use Document Bleeds is either off or that you set the bleed to 0.

If you do indeed want to include the bleed area, without any trim or crop marks, then the PDF is correct.

CS6 PDF Export Window:



Should be relatively the same in CC.. I don't want to launch CC at the moment.

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