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Automatic imposition Aldo puts your pages on the sheet in the right order. Fold, staple, read in order. CMYK conversion RGB to CMYK with a FOGRA39 profile. Preview the printed colour before you commit. Bleed & safe zones Aldo adds bleed and respects your printer’s margins. Clean prints, no white edges. Photo library & EXIF Sort your photos and batch-edit captions and credits. EXIF fills in the rest. 3D preview Flip through your book in 3D, rendered from the exact PDF you will export. Formats & bindings A4, A5, A7 booklet, A4 sewn, and more on the way. Templates that fit any format and binding.
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Feature: Bleed

Photos that run to the edge, with no white slivers.

Bleed is the few millimetres of image that run past the trim, so nothing white shows when the paper is cut. Aldo Reborn adds it automatically. It also works around the edge your home printer can’t reach.

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The Aldo Reborn bleed and safe-zone view on macOS, with an image extended past the trim and the safe area marked

Where the thin white line comes from

Paper cutters drift by about a millimetre. If your photo stops exactly at the page edge, that drift leaves a white sliver. Home printers make it worse. Most can’t print all the way to the edge, because they keep a non-printable margin. Aldo Reborn deals with both, and it warns you when a photo is too low-res to bleed cleanly. Your images run edge to edge.

How it works

Bleed, added automatically Any image that touches a page edge runs 3 mm past the trim. No white sliver when the paper is cut.
Only on cut edges Bleed lands where the paper is trimmed, never on a fold. Aldo knows the difference from your imposition.
It knows your printer Aldo respects your printer’s non-printable margin (~5 mm). It can also scale the zine to fit full-bleed on A4.
Safe zones stay clear Text and the parts that matter stay inside the safe area, away from the trim. Nothing important gets cut off.

Bleed & print-safe, compared

Aldo Reborn
InDesignAffinity PublisherCanva
✓ Adjustable bleed (0 / 3 / 5 mm)
✓ Some of them
✓ Bleed applied after imposition
✕ None of them
✓ PDF/X-3 compliant (embedded FOGRA39 profile)
✓ Some of them
✓ Front/back imposition view with real dimensions + marks
✕ None of them
✓ Automatic imposition (saddle-stitch, mini-booklet, sewn binding)
✕ None of them
✓ You never think about imposition
✕ None of them
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Frequently asked questions

What is bleed in printing?

Bleed is the few millimetres of image that run past the final trim line. When the paper is cut, the cut can drift a little. Bleed makes sure no white edge shows. Aldo Reborn adds it for you.

Why is there a white line at the edge of my print?

Your image stopped exactly at the page edge, and the cut drifted by a fraction of a millimetre. Run the image into the bleed area and that white sliver goes away.

Can my home printer print full-bleed?

Most home printers can’t print to the very edge. They keep a non-printable margin. Aldo’s “derived” mode scales your zine a touch so it prints full-bleed inside what your printer can reach. Then you trim to size.

What’s the difference between bleed and safe zone?

Bleed is outside the trim, the image that gets cut off. The safe zone is inside the trim, where you keep text and the parts that matter so nothing important is cut. Aldo handles both.

How much bleed do I need?

Aldo uses the standard 3 mm by default (0.125″ in the US). Every printer accepts it.

Aldo measuring with a ruler, checking margins

No more white edges

Aldo Reborn is out on macOS. Bleed and safe zones, set up automatically. You just print and trim.

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