- [Instructor] Please don't ever do this.
Don't build a lonely little business card
in the middle of a letter-sized page.
You always build your document to the final trim size.
If it's a postcard, that's going to be
six inches by nine inches.
Your document size is six inches by nine inches.
In this case, standard US business cards
should be three and a half inches wide by two inches tall.
So I'm going to get my zoom tool, and zoom in on this,
and see what the designer did.
They were thoughtful.
They used a script to put the crop marks
and registration marks.
This isn't going to help the printer at all.
The printer needs for this artwork
to fall on the correct trim size document.
So, first thing I'm going to do
is I'm going to sort of clean house.
I'm going to drag across here, select these shapes,
and delete them.
I'm going to catch everything on the right side.
Delete that.
So unfortunately, all of their effort has gone to waste.
I'm going to double-click my hand tool,
which is a handy way to get it back to full screen mode.
And I'm going to get my black arrow,
my selection tool, drag across this.
And then I'm just going to group all this stuff together.
It just makes it easier to handle.
Now, what I need to do is change my document size
to the correct trim size.
I'll go to file, document setup,
and this is going to be three and a half inches wide
by two inches tall.
Of course, whatever document you're building
would be the particular dimensions for that.
Notice that this is even recognized as a US business card.
Now, the margins, I'm not really concerned about.
But on little bitty thing like this,
it really just needs little bitty margins.
So, eighth of an inch would do fine.
If I had artwork that went to the edge of the page,
of course it would have to extend beyond in bleed,
but I don't have any artwork that bleeds.
So I'll just skip that for now and click okay.
I'm going to zoom out by hitting Control + Minus
on Windows, that would be Command + Minus or Hyphen
on the Mac.
And then I'm going to drag all of this artwork into position.
So they at least built their little containing frame,
their little indicator frame, the correct size.
And that makes this part easy for me.
But we no longer need that.
We don't want a black border around the edge.
So I'm going to go back to object and ungroup.
Click away to de-select,
and I'm going to select that black border and get rid of it.
I'm going to tap the W on my keyboard.
That's how this should've been built.
So just remember in the future,
don't put a little bitty thing in a great big page.
Always build your document,
whether you're building it in Illustrator or in InDesign,
always build it to the correct trim size.
If you need bleed, of course you can,
in InDesign go to file, document setup,
and then you can add bleed.
I can do this with two clicks, which is kind of handy.
There we go.
You would submit this to the printer.
After packaging, they'd have
all their little bits and pieces,
and they'd be so much happier
than if they got that poor little business card
stranded in the middle of a giant page.
Build it to the right size,
And everybody goes home happy.