Comments on: Create an Adobe Illustrator Template for a Tri-Fold Brochure

By: Erik Ford

Erik Ford — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:51:49 +0000

@Bee,
Yes. This tutorial is written for creating a document for professional 4 color printing. And honestly, I would never recommend doing any 4 color printing jobs on a home printer as they are not built for this type of heavy lifting.

But, if this is your print destination, this set up will work for you on some newer model printers that allow you to set document printing to “edge to edge” which is somewhat similar to full bleed. Understand you will not be able to achieve full bleed printing in older printers that don’t have this functionality. In these printers, your document will print with the large white border around the entire page no matter what document size you set.

I hope that helps.

By: Bee

Bee — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:47:32 +0000

Thanks for the useful tutorial Erik!

Just to clarify, the dimensions you gave create a letter size brochure after triming, and is for printing professionally on larger paper. Is that correct?
What dimensions would i use if I am printing the brochure at home on letter-size paper?

Forgive me for my ignorance.
Bee

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:24:37 +0000

This is very useful at the moment, thanks!

By: Varun Bhardwaj

Varun Bhardwaj — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:03:43 +0000

Thanks sir, most useful ….

By: Sen

Sen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:38:49 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for giving us this useful tutorial.
As a beginner in Illustrator, i felt like i have achieved something big just by following your tutorials.
Thanks once again & looking forward for more.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:24:30 +0000

Thaks

Nice one It really got me started on illustrator

Cheers
Ryan

By: sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:16:23 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

By: Ray Monteongo

Ray Monteongo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:04:37 +0000

Hey Eric:
Thanks for the template. It truly helped a ton. This will help me getting a jump start on Illustrator. Keep up the good work.

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By: Graham Jones

Graham Jones — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:31:35 +0000

Great Tut, it sometimes needs a person to point out the obvious, I have been setting each doc up from scratch instead of saving them as a basic template.
One thing though, I do feel sorry for you guys in the U.S. it would drive me crazy having to work out measurements with the imperial system, thank god the UK changed to
The Metric System before I got onto graphic designing.
Cheers.