Marks And Bleeds Not Working

[Paul_Wilson_-_Wilson_Design@adobeforums.com]

Hi,

I am running Mac OSX 10.4.11, Adobe Acrobat CS3, and have a Canon Pro 9000 printer. When I go to set up a document to print and click the advanced button to get to the advanced print setup screen, I then click on marks and bleeds, but the check boxes are grayed out so I cannot select the trim marks option. I could in my version of Acrobat Pro CS1.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Paul

[Paul_Wilson_-_Wilson_Design@adobeforums.com]

I just figured out that if I select Acrobat PDF 8.0 instead of my printer in the printer dialog box, I can check the bleeds box, (it is not grayed out). However I want to be able to use my printer so I can set the paper type and print quality.

Any thoughts?

Paul

[Jon Bessant]

It uses PDFMark data - therefore it must be a postscript device ...

Jon

[Paul_Wilson_-_Wilson_Design@adobeforums.com]

Hi Jon,

Thanks for the reply.

Is the PDFMark data new to the CS3? I could use the trim marks in the CS1 version of Acrobat. Also, when I export to PDF from Quark, I export to Acrobat version 5. Do you think if I exported to a higher version I could get the bleed marks to work?

Thanks again for your help,
Paul

[Gene_Hutton@adobeforums.com]

If you are exporting from Quark then you are not using Distiller you are using a Quark plug-in. You might try printing to the Adobe PDF Printer instead of exporting. The issue seems to be that since your printer is not a postscript printer then marks and bleeds are not accessible.