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Add bleed and trim marks to a PDF — free, in your browser

Drop in any number of PDFs or images and get them fitted to size with bleed, trim marks and a resolution check. Nothing uploads.

Your file never leaves your browser. This tool has no upload endpoint — the work happens on your own device and the file is gone when you close the tab. That is how it is built, not a policy we are asking you to trust.

1. Files

Drop one or more PDFs or images — a multi-page PDF becomes one entry per page. Nothing here is uploaded; everything is processed on your device and forgotten when you leave this page.

Add PDF, JPG, or PNG file(s)

Multiple files allowed — combined into one print-ready PDF, in the order added

2. Job settings

Target trim size

Target print DPI

Fit mode

Contain Cover

Whole source fits inside the box — pads the remainder rather than cropping.

Bleed (mm — 0 disables bleed)

Bleed fill

Extend Mirror Solid

Repeats the artwork's own edge pixels outward — best for a flat-colour or simple background.

Add trim marks

Clean up a thin stray edge border/line

Scan/crop, deliberately conservative — won't eat into real artwork.

Check artwork-too-close-to-trim safety margin

Safety margin (mm)

3. Run

Print file check

add bleed to a PDF · add trim marks · check print resolution · is my artwork print ready

What bleed actually is

Presses and guillotines do not cut to within a hair. Bleed is artwork extended past the finished edge — usually 3mm — so that when the cut lands a millimetre off, it lands in artwork rather than in white paper. Anything with colour running to the edge needs it.

Trim marks, and why the printer wants them

Trim marks sit outside the bleed and show the press operator where the finished edge is. Without them a file with bleed is ambiguous: nobody can tell which part is the job and which part is the overhang.

Resolution at final size, not at file size

A 4000-pixel image is high resolution on a business card and badly soft on a banner. The check here measures pixels against the finished size you enter, which is the only measurement that means anything, and tells you the effective DPI you would actually get.

Safety margins

Text sitting too close to the trim looks like a mistake even when the cut is perfect. The safety-margin check flags anything inside the distance you set, so you find it here rather than on a proof.

This is one tool out of a full print operations platform — job board, digital proofing your customer signs off from their phone, quoting, invoicing and client reporting.

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