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From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: setting the color of cropmarks
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 21:11:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E9D0E96-9596-4C73-8542-FD71430E30D7@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a2bf905-4656-afec-60e5-674cc51358f3@xs4all.nl>

Am 2019-12-19 um 20:21 schrieb Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>:
> 
> On 12/19/2019 7:46 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> 
>> Massi said the crop marks are defined in grayscale black, but wants CMYK black.
>> In layout programs crop and registration marks are usually set in a color named "Registration" (not register, my mistake) or the like, and it maps to all color plates, i.e. mostly CMYK 1,1,1,1, but also spot colors. You need that for manual film montage.
> 
> So what is 1,1,1,1 ? Quite some mixed ink i guess? Kind of brown + black?

C,M,Y,K each 100% (no relationship to 1,1,1-Trichloroethane)

> I can add some control over these cropmark colors by using symbolic names (later).

That would be nice. If you print on an office printer and cut yourself, it might make sense to use very light (e.g. yellow) crop marks.

Since I also sometimes need folding marks, I need to look into that sourcecode…

Hraban
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-19 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-19 15:41 mf
2019-12-19 17:07 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-12-19 17:24   ` mf
2019-12-19 17:39     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2019-12-19 18:11       ` mf
2019-12-19 18:46         ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-12-19 19:21           ` Hans Hagen
2019-12-19 20:11             ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2019-12-20 12:18               ` mf
2019-12-19 18:08     ` Hans Hagen

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