I had the pleasure of teaching four days of FrameMaker 9 this week. My students were very sharp and asked a number of excellent questions, which I am going to use as the topics of our next few "Skills & Drills" FrameMaker articles.
Here's the first one: "How do you create a PDF from FrameMaker that includes crop marks?" Peggy, this one is for you.
- Create a document that is smaller than the paper you will be printing on. For example, create a 7 in x 9 in page, with the intent to print it on 8.5 in x 11 in paper.
- Choose File > Save as (Frame 7/8) or choose File > Save as PDF (Frame 9) to save the file as a pdf.
- Choose Registration Marks: Western
- Type in the printed page size (in this example 8.5 in x 11 in) and click Set.
Done! Step number 4 was the one that tripped up my student, who had read the help files and tried in vain to make it work. Frame defaults the paper size to the document size. If you forget to change the paper size to a size that is larger than the document file, the crop marks won't show up!
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