- From: MURAKAMI Shinyu <murakami@antenna.co.jp>
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:36:41 +0900
- To: Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>
- Cc: "Cramer, Dave" <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
(I wrote)
> >> BTW, the standard bleed (and mark-offset) length is 3mm in Japan (and
> >> other many countries, probably).
> >> I'm not against with 6pt but would like to know whether this is
> >> acceptable default bleed length for other people.
Just now I got a bunch of comments about the bleed on Twitter[1] from Japanese professionals in typesetting/printing.
The consensus here is that 3mm is most appropriate default value for bleeds, necessary for usual paper cutting condition, and we should not define the standard value with points unit, because we use the international standard metric system and the standard paper sizes are defined in millimeters.
[1] https://twitter.com/p_typo/status/401981982898270208
https://twitter.com/monokano/status/401986106758926336
https://twitter.com/koueihei/status/401994010782232577
etc. (in Japanese)
Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com> wrote on 2013/11/17 10:21:59
> We have added an "auto" default value for bleed in Prince, and potentially this could compute to a value appropriate for the locale or the configuration of the user agent. So the spec might not need to mandate 3mm or 6pt, it could just mention them as possible choices for the the auto value.
I agree with you. I think 3mm is good default but UA-specific (configurable) is better. So I would suggest the 'bleed' value as:
Value: auto | normal | <length>
Initial: auto
auto
Same as 'normal' if 'marks' has 'crop' and to zero otherwise.
normal
UA-specific. A value of 3mm is suggested.
Regards,
Shinyu Murakami
Antenna House
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