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The current page size is shown in the status bar as you drag.

Automatic Page Extension

Objects that have the PUSH option turned on (see right click menu, "PAGE POSITION" >
"PUSH") will make the page extend automatically if they extend over or close to the
bottom of the page. All the web page templates in the DESIGNS GALLERY use this feature
so that pages grow as required during editing. See the Push section in the Object
Handling (on page 75) chapter for details.

Orientation
• Portrait orientation displays the longest sides vertically.
• Landscape orientation displays the longest sides horizontally. If you entered a custom
page size, landscape turns the page sideways.

Outer margin
This lets you set the width of the pasteboard around the page or spread.
Bleed

To produce format filling print results printing shops use a larger format paper and crop it
to the target format after it has been printed. Due to mechanical tolerances inaccuracies
can happen during this process. For this reason, printing shops recommend including an
additional "safe area" around the actual print motif. This is often referred to as the
"bleed". This ensures that no important content is cropped and that no white borders
appear on the edges if the motif background is not white or a background pattern is used.

Without this "bleed" area a mechanical error during cropping can lead to white borders or
image elements that are too close to the edge being cut.

The bleed area is set in the Page area of the Page Options (on page 634) and in the
program it is displayed as a red rectangle around the page. Normally this bleed area is 1-