Newbie Christine asked:

> First-timer here to this site...why cannot I not generate a pdf with both 
> bookmarks and cropmarks?

That's by design. It's "horses for courses".
Crop marks are only useful/relevant when you're preparing camera-ready copy and 
the final deliverable with be hard copy. Bookmarks are only useable when you're 
preparing an electronic deliverable (the PDF itself) that will be used 
interactively. If you're preparing camera-ready copy, hyperlinks and 
interactive features are useless and just get in the way in the printing 
process. When you're delivering an interactive document, it's really annoying 
for users to see a large page area with a small text area and crop marks, since 
that forces them to zoom in to make the text easier to read and then live have 
to scroll over large amounts of whitespace in the top and bottom page margins. 
If you select "Generate Acrobat Data" (i.e. enable interactive features), 
FrameMaker automatically disables crop marks, and vice versa. If you're 
generating PDFs for two disparate purposes, you should be generating two 
separate, optimized PDFs.
-Fred Ridder                                      

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