Re: Can't crop document

[Shlomo Perets <shlomo2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Helen,

You wrote:

> I am running Frame 7.0 on Windows 2000, and using Acrobat 5.
>
> The page size of our documents is 7.5" x 9.0". When we had Frame 6.0, we
> used to create PDF files by creating a .ps file and then distilling it. With
> Frame 7.0 we are trying to use the Save as PDF feature.
>
> When I Save as PDF with the page size set to 7.5" x 9.0", our printer says
> the files are unacceptable. He says that the bleed tabs need to extend
> beyond the 7.5" margin so they "bleed" when they are trimmed. The only way
> we have found around this is to Save as PDF with the page size set to 8.5" x
> 11.0" and then crop the pages to 7.5" x 9.0" in Acrobat.
>
> I am trying to automate this by adding a pdfmark to the files. This is what
> I have added:
>
> /pdfmark where {pop} {userdict /pdfmark /cleartomark load put} ifelse
> [ /CropBox [36 72 576 720] /PAGES pdfmark
>
> The resulting PDF page size is still 8.5" x 11". The PostScript Code box is
> checked in the Customize Text Frame dialog of FrameMaker. What am I doing
> wrong? Any other suggestions?

When Generate Acrobat Data is turned on, FrameMaker adds it own /PAGE 
cropping pdfmarks to the PS file, and these override your pdfmark.

If you need to produce a strictly print-only PDF, with no links/bookmarks: 
print to a .ps file with "Generate Acrobat Data" turned off, and upon 
distilling you'll get the page cropping you're looking for.

If would like to have the interactive features as well control the 
cropping, you may use the FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers add-on -- if you 
turn on the "IgnorePage" function, FrameMaker's /PAGE pdfmarks are 
suppressed, and yours will be respected.
[ see http://www.microtype.com/TimeSavers/SPTS-FM.pdf#IgnorePAGE ]


Shlomo Perets

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