today I'm going to show you how to set
up a trifold brochure for print in
Adobe Illustrator a quick simple and
easy illustrator tutorial
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illustrator tutorial based around a
trifold brochure for prints a quick
disclaimer you can use both InDesign and
illustrator to design a trifold brochure
for print I've used both programs in the
past without any complications so comes
down to a personal preference at the end
of the day this was a subscriber
suggestion I'm just showing you how to
set up the tripod brochure in
Illustrator and exported for print to
not how to design the ACTU artwork in
this tutorial to make up the brochure
we're going to need two sheets of paper
when you see a brochure there are three
sides on the back and three sides on the
front and so you're going to visualize
it this way but together with two sheets
of paper in Illustrator creating a
document you want to select the print
option here and to my brochure I'm going
to use a three paper your inpatient
needs to be landscape and make sure use
millimeters instead of points printing
projects need a bleed and we're going to
use a five minute a bleed for this
trifold brochure and we'll use to our
boards as I showed you before at the
beginning we need two pieces of paper
and then I will put the width between
the out boards on my screen a little bit
wider once you're happy click to
generate
hits a man our or control our on a PC to
bring up your rulers the red line around
your artboard is the bleed the space
from the edge of the white our board to
the red line is going to be cut away and
discarded by the printer you can right
click the rulers here to make sure using
millimeters if we take our 420
millimeter width brochure and divided by
3 you get 140 so we're going to split
the brochure in three parts each with
140 millimeters and we'll drag a guide
from the rulers of the side and place it
at 140 millimeters you can look at the
very top of the canvas at the rulers but
make sure you start from zero do this as
close as you can to 140 millimeters and
280 millimeters with a fraction of a
millimeter to either way
as I said described between the red line
and the canvas is the bleed that's going
to be cut away however you must bring
your design up to the bleed so obviously
leave any tanks or luggage away from
this area furthermore this is advisable
to make guides another 500 is in from
the edge of the canvas and to keep all
important content out of there as well
you should end up with five millimeter
guides colleges and even from the inner
fold in sections where I can highlight
all the vertical guides and then hold an
out and teach you this icon up here keep
holding down alt and click and drag
could you play Kate the guides over to
the next board
it wasn't still selected place them
exactly where they should be five
millimeters from the edge I can see that
the star this illustrator tutorial this
is just a video on how to set up the
design for print and not how to design
the actual work itself you can lock and
file the guides here it will be helpful
when you're designing the artwork and
you want to see the entire design
without any guides in the way and of
course locking them music they will not
be moved around and out of place
we need to create outlines of all the
text content on your trifold brochure
and also make sure all images are
imported illustrator F CMYK and 300 PPI
in resolution now we can save our
trifold brochure to print in Illustrator
go to file and save and then select the
PDF or print option select them this
recent version of Acrobat on the top
right corner and on the compression use
it but this can be both lossy and
lossless option for print usable
printing marks for this document and
then at the end if there any warnings
that you flagged up in the summary
section go ahead and hit save and it
should appear in Acrobat if you have it
in the computer
into the two page view option here for
this mock-up I've added a link in the
description below and there you have it
they deal astray to tutorial on how to
make a trifold brochure for print using
Illustrator I hope you found it helpful
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