Harold Fuchs wrote:
2008/9/8 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 08/09/2008 00:26, Bruce Hooley wrote:
Hi! I'm preparing a master document which will eventually go to a .pdf
file for publication. I need crop marks to print on each page as I produce
the pages from the .pdf file to send to the printer. I can't find any
reference to crop marks in the Help file. Can you tell me if it is possible
to print crop marks and how I would go about it?
Many thanks for your help
Bruce Hooley
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It's not clear to me why you need crop marks. If you tell OpenOffice what
size pages you want your document will be automatically paginated properly.
Then just export it as PDF (File>Export as PDF) and all should be sweetness
and light. To set the page size go to Format>Page>Page and set the relevant
options. The Help also has a lot of information about things you can do with
page formats - numbering, backgrounds, orientation etc. etc.
If you really want crop marks you could put them in the page footer. For
details of inserting and formatting footers, please see the Help under
Footers.
If it's going to a printer for publication, the crop marks may be used when
trimming the paper and also for verifying colour alignment, when printing.
Please excuse my ignorance but why does the paper need to be trimmed? Oh, is
it being printed on a roll?
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Having worked with offset press I know well the need for crop marks.
What I do is use (in my case) a CAD program to create them. I think the
OOo Draw can do them. Set them to page frame (or in or out) and print
them as a picture. (In UNIX this is simple. Print as .ps, use
ImageMagic's convert to make it into a bitmap. Window's or other format
is OK. Just bit on/off monochrome content.) Insert the image and type
over. Keep the 'original' bitmap for continued use. May need to set it
to "WaterMark" to be able to type over (or at least have it show up
correctly). If you need to get fancy, picture in picture in same
locations each page, use GIMP and overlay them (the extra registration
marks) and save as a bitmap or tiff and use that as the reusable
background. DO NOT SAVE TO ANY COMPRESSED FORMAT! Those will 'dither'
your efforts and create ghost lines! Creates a very sh.. UH - poor
effect.
Now - adding anything to a PDF file generally requires more than just
'adding' at print time. Usually one needs to 'have it already there' or
do without. There are markup programs which might allow you to import
'graphics' (lines) and print, but beware. One choice I know works is to
print the PDF to PS and combine with frame in GIMP. Automation is
lacking so this becomes a manual thing. It's done one page at a time.
Gotta watch the scales and make sure all parts are same
x-total-dots-across, y-total-dots-down at same x-dpi and same y-dpi.
Most desktop picture (raster) programs assume PostScripts 72x72 dpi is
scale 1 and any other dpi is scale other/72. You might want to keep that
in mind. Might save you some exasperation. :) Not hard, just tedious,
very tedious. But it works and the final page(s) made from the
registered color separation process will look great. (Well - as good as
the printer anyway. :)
Hope this helps;
Steve
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