Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-08 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2016-11-07 08:16, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2016-11-06 um 22:56 schrieb Alexander Kobel : In many brochure-bound volumes of more than two or three sheets (say, 60+ pages), the paper is cut to align flush when the brochure is closed. So the inner sheets are (sometimes significantly, sa

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2016-11-06 um 22:56 schrieb Alexander Kobel : >>> In many brochure-bound volumes of more than two or three sheets (say, 60+ >>> pages), the paper is cut to align flush when the brochure is closed. So >>> the inner sheets are (sometimes significantly, say in the order of 5mm per >>> page or

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-06 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi Hraban, hi all. On 2016-11-06 18:10, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2016-11-04 um 13:44 schrieb Alexander Kobel : On 2016-11-04 11:56, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: (BTW I studied typesetter and printing engineer, worked in printshops for decades.) That reminds me to ask a professional a qu

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2016-11-04 um 13:44 schrieb Alexander Kobel : > On 2016-11-04 11:56, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >> Even if your PDF pages are bigger than the intended printed pages, you could >> easily define "trim box" and "bleed box" of the PDF. A printshop that cannot >> handle these nowadays is no seriou

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-04 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2016-11-04 11:56, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Even if your PDF pages are bigger than the intended printed pages, you could easily define "trim box" and "bleed box" of the PDF. A printshop that cannot handle these nowadays is no serious business. But then they could do that for you, too. (BTW

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-04 Thread Urs Liska
Am 04.11.2016 um 12:48 schrieb Federico Bruni: > Il giorno ven 4 nov 2016 alle 11:56, Henning Hraban Ramm > ha scritto: >> Am 2016-11-03 um 17:22 schrieb Federico Bruni : >> >>> Tomorrow morning I need to print a book and I've just been asked to >>> add "crop marks" (I think this is the right e

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-04 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno ven 4 nov 2016 alle 11:56, Henning Hraban Ramm ha scritto: Am 2016-11-03 um 17:22 schrieb Federico Bruni : Tomorrow morning I need to print a book and I've just been asked to add "crop marks" (I think this is the right expression) to the final PDF. IIUC crop marks are not needed wh

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2016-11-03 um 17:22 schrieb Federico Bruni : > Tomorrow morning I need to print a book and I've just been asked to add "crop > marks" (I think this is the right expression) to the final PDF. IIUC crop > marks are not needed when printing with normal printers, but it's needed for > serious di

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-04 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno gio 3 nov 2016 alle 17:52, Urs Liska ha scritto: If you want to go the LaTeX way you can use the following boilerplate code: \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage[ % set absolute paper dimensions *including bleeding area* % in this example A4 plus 6mm (*2) width=22.2truecm, he

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-03 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno gio 3 nov 2016 alle 18:46, Alexander Kobel ha scritto: On 2016-11-03 18:40, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno gio 3 nov 2016 alle 17:52, Urs Liska ha scritto: If you want to go the LaTeX way you can use the following boilerplate code: No, I can't. I decided not to use lilypond-boo

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-03 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2016-11-03 18:40, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno gio 3 nov 2016 alle 17:52, Urs Liska ha scritto: If you want to go the LaTeX way you can use the following boilerplate code: No, I can't. I decided not to use lilypond-book because of its limitations. Thanks anyway Urs' proposal is comple

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-03 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno gio 3 nov 2016 alle 17:43, Alexander Kobel ha scritto: You can use some external application to create an empty one-page PDF with only the crop marks and use, e.g., pdftk with its "stamp" or "background" function to overlay the book and the crop marks. If you need to increase the pap

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-03 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno gio 3 nov 2016 alle 17:52, Urs Liska ha scritto: If you want to go the LaTeX way you can use the following boilerplate code: No, I can't. I decided not to use lilypond-book because of its limitations. Thanks anyway ___ lilypond-user mai

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.11.2016 um 17:32 schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: > Hi Federico, > I've never succeeded to do that directly with LilyPond. I had to use > LaTeX.. > Cheers, > Pierre > If you want to go the LaTeX way you can use the following boilerplate code: \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage[ %

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-03 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2016-11-03 17:22, Federico Bruni wrote: Hi folks I have a urgent request. Tomorrow morning I need to print a book and I've just been asked to add "crop marks" (I think this is the right expression) to the final PDF. IIUC crop marks are not needed when printing with normal printers, but it's n

Re: crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-03 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Federico, I've never succeeded to do that directly with LilyPond. I had to use LaTeX.. Cheers, Pierre 2016-11-03 17:22 GMT+01:00 Federico Bruni : > Hi folks > > I have a urgent request. > Tomorrow morning I need to print a book and I've just been asked to add > "crop marks" (I think this is th

crop marks in PDF for printing

2016-11-03 Thread Federico Bruni
Hi folks I have a urgent request. Tomorrow morning I need to print a book and I've just been asked to add "crop marks" (I think this is the right expression) to the final PDF. IIUC crop marks are not needed when printing with normal printers, but it's needed for serious digital and offset prin