Re: PDF: visible registration marks

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:17 AM 2/10/99 +0100, Peder Axensten wrote:
>Thanks for your sugestions!
>
>I am going to try it in the next project (this one has a final date comming
>up).
>I see one problem though. While I work I print the pages to a A4 printer
>and I'd like to do that without downscaling the page to fit into A4 (to
>measure space for ills etc.).
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There's an easy solution to the problem you describe above by creating two
page layout templates, one having the standard A4 page size, and the other
having the oversized page size with crop marks. This will allow you to
switch your documents back and forth between the standard A4 page size and
the oversized page size with crop marks. You can make the page size switch
on individual files, or on an entire book. Proceed as follows:

1. Open one of your A4 documents.

2. Create a new empty A4-sized document, and use File > Import > Formats to
import into it only the page layouts from the document opened in step 1, and
save it as a standard A4-sized page layout template under an appropriate name.

3. Repeat step 2 to create a second empty A4-sized document (this is the
template you will next make 0.5" larger in height and width than the A4
size, use File > Import > Formats to import into it only the page layouts
from the document opened in step 1.

4. Close the documents opened in steps 1 and 2, and keep open the template
created in step 3.

5. Choose Format > Page Layout > Page Size, and change the page size of the new
template so that it is 0.5" larger in height and width than the A4 page size.

6. Perform steps 2 thru 7 of the procedure in my earlier post to create the
cropmark master page, and to copy the grouped cropmarks to the clipboard.

7. On each of the template's master pages (i.e., the master pages that were
imported from the original A4 document in step 3), select all objects (text
frames, etc.) on the master page, group them, and move the grouped master page
objects 0.25" left and 0.25" down from their present position. Then, ungroup
them. This action adjusts the master page positions to compensate for the
additional 0.25" of margins at the left and top page edges produced by the
increased page size accomplished in step 5.

8. After completing step 7, go back to each master page, and paste in the
crop marks that were copied to the clipboard in step 6. Be sure that the
pasted crop mark object has zero offset from the left and top page edges.

9. You can now delete from the template the crop mark master page, since it
is no longer needed.

10. Save the new oversized template, created in step 3, and steps 4 thru 9,
under an appropriate name.

11. Now you have two page layout templates, both containing the master pages
that were used in the original A4 document. When you want to print to PDF,
use File > Import > Formats to import into your documents only the page
layouts from the oversized template with crop marks created in step 3 and
steps 4 thru 9. To restore the standard A4 page size to your documents, use
File > Import > Formats to import into the document only the page layouts
from the standard-sized template created in step 2.
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