Hello guys
Does anyone knows if there is a way to change the thickness and the size of the crop marks from the print preview?
Thanks
Marios
There's no way to do it with the standard Corel cropmarks.
But I think there may be some third party macros that generate crop marks as part of the file, and they might possibly have that option. Or, because the cropmarks become file objects, you would be able to edit them afterwards.
Thanks guys
Marios Charalambous said: change the thickness and the size of the crop marks
change the thickness and the size of the crop marks
Mek
EDIT: Do you mean change as attached?
You can change the crop marks, but only for printing, not for the print preview.
Attached sample pdf - crop marks changed - longer and thicker (permanent change).
Bets regards
Mek.
The thinner the crop marks are, the more accurate the cuts will be.
suku said: The thinner the crop marks are, the more accurate the cuts will be.
Dear Suku
If they are too thin, sometimes the crops do not show when instead of plates or films a tracing paper is used
Marios Charalambous said: If they are too thin, sometimes the crops do not show when instead of plates or films a tracing paper is used
True. You are right.
I use my own custom designed crop/registration marks rather than depend on the default CorelDRAW ones.
Mek said: You can change the crop marks, but only for printing, not for the print preview. Attached sample pdf - crop marks changed - longer and thicker (permanent change). Bets regards Mek.
Dear Mek
How did you do that?
Dear Marios,
change of crop marks length and thickness in X5 (also done on ver.11)
Find file marks.ps – X5 on XP - C:\Program Files\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5\Data
1. open marks.ps for editing - e.g. in Notepad (Don’t forget to make copy of original file before editing)
2. find following section
@crop{@gs{[1.6 1.6]0 setdash}if 10 div/$croplen xd .3 w 0 @smc Tl rotate 00 m 0 $croplen neg rl stroke @gr}bd
3. length of marks - change 10 to another value – less values = longer marks, e.g. Value Crop length in mm10 8,4678.467 101 84,667 4. thickness of marks - change value .3 to another value – greater value = thicker marks, e.g.Value Crop thickness in mm.3 0,106.566 0,2001 0,353 5. save file marks.ps
Then values for crop marks changed.
Best regards,