[pdftex] Cropmarks and plain pdftex

[Hans Hagen]

At 02:35 13/05/2004, The Thanh Han wrote:
>On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:13:37AM -1000, John Culleton wrote:
> > I want to print out a book with cropmarks. The project is
> > near completion. I don't want to redo the whole book in
> > either Context or pdflatex at this point.
> >
> > The only packages I can find on this are cropmark.sty
> > (Victor Eijkhout) and cropmark.tex (Peter Ungar) The first
> > package puts the cropmarks in the wrong place at the top,
> > and the second yields no marks at all.
> >
> > Has anyone dealt with crop marks in a plain pdftex run?
>
>I have typeset a book with plain pdftex. I wrote my own output routine
>to support cropmarks, mirroring a grid. I can send you that file, but
>IMHO it might take longer to understand than the case you write your
>own.

Using context:

\starttext

\setuppapersize[A4][A3]
\setuplayout[marking=on,location=middle]
\copypages[m.pdf]

\stoptext

of course you need to set the papersize right.

Hans