Crop marks and Lightning Source

Crop marks and Lightning Source

[John Culleton]

A popular POD printer in the USA called LIghtning Source wants the 
finished page to be centered on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper in the pdf 
file submitted to them. This can be done with \definepapersze and 
\setuppapersize. However this technique shows cropmarks and 
Lighting Source specifies "no crop marks."

Question 1: How do I eliminate cropmarks yet still have the smaller page 
centered on the larger page? 

Second, my customer pointed out to me that on my finished pdf the
cropmarks do not exactly delineate the specific size (in this case 5.5 x 
8.5 inches.)   On my laser printer they define a space about 1/32 inch 
shorter than the nominal dimension in both vertical and horizontal 
directions. This is about 2 or 3 points. 

Question 2. Why are the cropmarks apparently imprecise?

All hints appreciated, as always.
-- 
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters
http://wexfordpress.com



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Crop marks and Lightning Source

[Erik George Hetzner]

John Culleton writes: [cropped to save space]
 > Question 1: How do I eliminate cropmarks yet still have the smaller page 
 > centered on the larger page? 
 > Question 2. Why are the cropmarks apparently imprecise?

First question: \setuplayout[marking=no] or is it marking=off? One of
the two.

Second question: I have no idea. One possible thing which has arisen for
me many times: assuming you are printing from Acrobat, are your
print settings set to either enlarge or shrink pages? This is
something I know I have gotten wrong more than once.

Regards,
Erik Hetzner

Re: Crop marks and Lightning Source

[John Culleton]

On Wednesday 10 September 2003 19:33, Erik George Hetzner wrote:
> John Culleton writes: [cropped to save space]
>
>  > Question 1: How do I eliminate cropmarks yet still have the
>  > smaller page centered on the larger page?
>  > Question 2. Why are the cropmarks apparently imprecise?
>
> First question: \setuplayout[marking=no] or is it marking=off? One of
> the two.
>
Correct. sometmes I forget what I did :-(
 > Second question: I have no idea. 
I ran tests with Context pdftex and plain TeX using a 6 inch horizontal 
rule and no other typography. They all came up about 3/64 inch short. 
In the plain TeX sample I used dvips and printed from the PS file.
So it appears my printer shrinks a file by about 1% or thereabouts.  My 
customer's printer must do the same. It is not a Context problem nor an 
Acrobat Reader problem. 

TFYH
-- 
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters
http://wexfordpress.com



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Re: Crop marks and Lightning Source

[Patrick Gundlach]

> Question 1: How do I eliminate cropmarks yet still have the smaller page 
> centered on the larger page? 

\setuplayout[marking=on,location=middle]

> Question 2. Why are the cropmarks apparently imprecise?

Don't know, this is a good question. It is not very much, but it is
strange indeed.

Patrick