Crop Marks

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?

Thanks

Marios

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 0
0 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 mm
10            8,467
8.467        10
1              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           0,200
1               0,353
  
5. save file marks.ps

Then values for crop marks changed.

Best regards,

Mek