Crop marks on PDF

Harro de Jong Harro.deJong at triviewgroup.com
Thu Jun 20 00:09:40 PDT 2013


Carol J. Elkins wrote: 


> HOWEVER, I don't want all of the registration marks; I want only trim
> marks. So I need to do this in Acrobat, not Frame. I cannot get
> Acrobat set up to do this correctly.  I've located the Add Printer
> Marks toolbar, but I can't get it to work. I suspect that the printed
> page size needs to be bigger than the page size defined by the trim
> marks. However, I can't define a different page size in the PDF file;
> that needs to be done in Frame. But I don't want Frame to change the
> PDF output's page size.

In Acrobat X, the tool you're looking for is in 
Tools> Print Production>Set page boxes
Despite the name, this dialog also allows you to change the page size.
Make sure to apply the new page size to all pages and not just the current one.
Then you can add the registration marks.

Harro de Jong
Triview



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