[pdftex] crop marks

[Adrian Heathcote]

Hi Ross
>
> I use Franz Melchior's  crop.sty .
>
> However, with PDF there is a catch, as the crop-marks
> are necessarily outside the desired MediaBox, so the page
> is trimmed in the viewer to exclude them.
>
> To overcome this, I simply adjust the \pdfpageheight/width
> with coding such as:
>
>   \AtBeginDocument{%
>      \pdfpagewidth = <fixed-larger-width>
>      \pdfpageheight= <fixed-larger-height>
>   }
>
> specifying some fixed dimensions, roughly 2 inches larger than
> the desired papersize, to allow the crop-marks to be seen.

I don't know that this is necessary. I use:

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{twoside,
	top=0.45in,
	paperwidth=6in,
	paperheight=9in,
	textheight=7.65in,
	textwidth=4.7in,
	outer=0.75in}

\usepackage[cam,a4,
	center]{crop}

And the crop marks are visible in the pdf viewer of TeXShop.

Adrian Heathcote