Adding Crop Marks Manually

[John_Dikmen@adobeforums.com]

I have a client who has given me a PC-MSWORD file (300 page facing pages book) which has been saved to Postscript (.PRN). MSWORD apparently has no way of specifying crop marks. The crop area should be 6" x 9", but when I distill the file on my Mac in Distiller to a PDFX/1a format, it places the 6" x 9" area toward the top center of an 8.5" x 11" sheet. Is there any way that I can add crop marks for facing pages in Acrobat before I send the file to a print shop?

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

John,

In the Page setup menu dialog box, the creator of the postscript/word
file should be sure to set the page size properly This should give you
the proper page size in the pdf, however, I do not know how to add
crop marks. You Acrobat 6 to crop all of the pages in the pdf if you
need to. You can also use Quite Imposing to trim and shift pages if
necessary.

Mike

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

If you felt brave you could create a PDF of some crop marks and add them
as a watermark in Acrobat 6 ....

Enfocus Pitstop has some great actions for this type of work - it can
even add targets, colours and enlarge the media box to accommodate the
marks.

Jon

[John_Dikmen@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for the feedback. I will tell my client that he will need to spend another $500 to $600 since Microsoft WORD on a PC wil not save a facing-pages layout with crop marks to meet print shop requirements from a PDFX-1a file. Not to mention the fact that he just purchased Acrobat 6.0 Professional for apparently no reason. $1000 bucks to make a black and white mostly text PDF from WORD on a PC for a print shop - who knew!

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

John,

Better yet, get them to drop Word and move to Frame. It will create all
that you want and let them generate the pdf file themself.

Mike

[Guest]

No kidding. That's exactly what I was thinking.