Trim Marks

[Bharat]

Hi,

Is there any facility in the program to insert trim marks ( like printers marks ) to enable accurate cutting of large format printed output?

Thank you

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi Bharat

you can try using the Print Dialogue and selecting "Tile large pages" or "Tile all pages" values for Scaling Type option. After this you will be able to enable the "Show cut marks on sheets" option. These cut marks will be printed to the paper...

You may also enable other option "Show labels on sheets" - it enables cut-tips - it can be helpful. And, for example, for first page of the manual, select the zoom factor(in print dialog, "Tile large pages" mode) to 200%, and swicth on the "Auto-rotate sheets in composition" (to minimize count of the output- tiles). after this - you will have 6 sheets with tiles to output for combining printed sheets...

hth

[Bharat]

Thank you very much for the reply. I am trying to print A0 size on a single sheet of paper using a large format printer - I cannot use the tiling option as this would result in many sheets of A4. Please check for me if I have other options. Thanks

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Bharat,

As you were asking for trimming options, Paul pointed you to the tile, but seems like you might need another option already available:
Please have a look at the Page Scaling section in the Print Dialogue in our Viewer and check the Scaling Type "Fit to printer Margins".
With this option selected the whole A0 page would be automatically scaled down to fit on the sheet you have selected in your printer - being it an A4, A3 or whatever the printer is reporting back to our application as an available sheet size.

Best,
Stefan

[Bharat]

Hello Stefan,

I am printing A0 sizes on an Oce Plotter. However, the print cuts off before the full A0 size is reached as there is no information at the edge of the paper on the PDF file. If I was able to insert trim marks, then the plotter would have to print those before cutting the paper from the roll. I am unable to change the PDF file.

Cheers

Bharat

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Bharat,

Our Viewer allows you to see the different boxes around a page (Crop, trim etc.) but I am not sure that changing the trim one will have any effect.

Another option that comes to my mind is to try and "print" this document to PDF, but to use B0 as sheet size.
Then add the trims and force your printer to print them.

Best,
Stefan