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?
"On a roll" is called "web printing" and it might be. However, even if
printed on sheets, it still gets trimmed, after being bound, to create
the smooth sides that a book has. Also, depending on the page size, the
pages may have to be cut apart, before binding and also pages are
generally folded into quarters, resulting in 8 pages from a sheet. The
extra has to be trimmed, during the binding process.
So yes, when having a book printed commercially, the paper usually has
to be cut.
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