[XeTeX] Problems with crop package?

[Ross Moore]

Hi Stefano,

On 21/10/2005, at 1:41 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote:


> I might explore that option, thanks for the hint. Although I must  
> say the prospect of rerunning a 300-odd pages manuscript twice  
> trhough LaTeX (or XeTeX plus LaTeX) to produce final output makes  
> me cringe.

The second run is just importing 300-odd images.
It does not reprocess the LaTeX source of your document.
There's only ~10 lines of LaTeX coding needed for this.


> You keep referring to the crop-mark option in Apple's Print  
> manager, BTW, but I could not find any such thing. Unfortunately I  
> do not have access to Acrobat Pro to try that one out.

Acrobat has an "Advanced Printing Options" screen.
It looks like this (in Acrobat 6.0):
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For other applications, you will need to devise an appropriate  
ColorSync filter
to be included with your print job. This is done using the ColorSync  
Utility.

Here's a screen shot that suggests what may be possible:

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You ought to be able to just use this  PDFX-3 filter
and have a TrimBox printed.

I've not actually done this myself.
Maybe others have done so.


Cheers

     Ross

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