Yes. The printers normally ask for crop marks to help with alignment, and I
understand they do print from a roll. With no pictures going over page edges, I
may be able to get away without the crop marks, but I was hoping to add them
just to make sure. I'll check what the footers can do. Thanks!
Bruce
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From: Harold Fuchs
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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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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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