On Saturday 15 January 2011 10:44:50 Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 01/15/2011 10:38 AM, John Culleton wrote: > > Scribus does not have a handy facility for trim marks. TeX does. > > In my decade or more of typesetting novels and other books > > professionally (i.e. I charge money) I have only encountered two > > publishers that wanted camera ready hard copy. In one case years > > ago the publisher didn't know that their printer would rather > > work from a proper size pdf instead of camera ready copy. I > > enlightened them. > > As of 1.3.8/1.3.9 Scribus does indeed have a "handy facility" for > crop marks in the Pre-Press tab of PDF export. Not sure how it > could be easier. > > Otherwise, this is what Louis tells us as a commercial printer, > that in most cases he would rather not have crop marks in the PDF, > but make them himself. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
Thanks for the correction on crop/trim marks. But with a pdf built to true page size they aren't needed. I don't know any printers that won't work from a true page size pdf. Do you? -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
