EPS from ID With Crop Marks?

[Skyline@adobeforums.com]

We have to deal with a print vendor that cannot reliably RIP PDFs created from InDesign. We have no choice but to deal with this vendor--we won the pre-press bid and they won the print bid. So "find a better vendor" isn't a solution this time around.

This is a 48-page tourism guide, 4/4, trim size 4x9 with bleeds .125" on all outside edges, being printed on a heatset web press on 60# gloss white text. We're using ID 3.0.1, Windows 2000 Pro, plenty of RAM and power..

We've sent them all sorts of test files. The only ones that seem to RIP reliably are EPS files (exported from ID). The only thing l;acking are crop marks to identify the 4x9 trim size. Can't seem to find a way to add crop marks to EPS files exported from ID.

As we have left and right hand pages which all bleed to outside edges, and the EPS files are created one page to a file, we don't want to leave anything to chance so crop marks are IMO a necessity. When they go to impose these pages (which seems like a lot of extra work if we provide 48 separate files) it would be easy to mess up without crop marks.

Any suggestions? A plug-in maybe?

[Harron_K._Appleman@adobeforums.com]

Sky,

You could print each page to a Postscript file (using the device independent PPD), checking 'All Printer's Marks' under Marks & Bleeds in the print dialog.

Even a printer as clueless as your assigned vendor should be able to RIP PS files. If EPS it must be, then tell them to open each PS file in Illustrator and resave as EPS. Printer's marks will be preserved.

Try a test file and keep your fingers crossed.

=-= Harron =-=

[Jens Schulze]

> You could print each page to a Postscript file (using the device

> independent PPD), checking 'All Printer's Marks' under Marks
> & Bleeds in the print dialog.

I would modify the workflow Harron suggests from here on to supress any
problems with postscript errors the printer may encounter, thinking of
gigabyte of postscript data for the entire catalog.... you should distill
your generated postscript (with cropmarks) to PDF, and then, export the
entire file to EPS, Acrobat can handle this automatically for each page.
This should give you the control that the postscript code is fine, that the
fonts are embedded and that the EPS files you submit are nearly perfect, and
an amount of data you can handle.

Jens

[Bob_Levine]

Why not just draw them on the master page?

Bob

[Guy_Smiley@adobeforums.com]

Jens Schulze wrote in
news:DF6DF19F619913077C337954F45485B6@in.webx.la2e afNXanI:

> distill
> your generated postscript (with cropmarks) to PDF, and then,
> export the entire file to EPS, Acrobat can handle this
> automatically for each page.

I think this workflow makes the most sense.