[pdftex] Crop marks

Oliver Heins olli at sopos.org
Fri Dec 27 16:07:01 CET 2002


On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 10:35:10AM +0700, The Thanh Han wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 10:43:48PM +0100, Martin Schroeder wrote:
> > On 2002-12-26 15:12:34 +0000, John Culleton wrote:
> > > Is there a pdftex facility for crop marks equivalent to the
> > > -k parameter for dvips? (I use pdfetex, not pdflatex!)
> > 
> > AFAIK not. I'm sure it's not built in.
> 
> when I need cropmark with pdftex, I have to write my own output routine.
> When you are not using latex or context, you are supposed to do everything
> by yourself.

Edmac has changed TeX's ouput-routine to be used with cropmarks.  It
should be easy to extract the code, as edmac is very well
documentated.

Edmac's homepage:
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/edmac/index.html

HTH,
olli



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