file integrity
aitchmal0ne (220 pencils) | Thu, 2010-11-04 19:30many times ads are submitted to me as pdfs that still have the crop marks and the only way for me to get rid of them is to open in photoshop and chose the option "crop to bleed space" - my concern is that since i'm opening it in photoshop that it is rasterizing the file, therefore losing a bit of clarity. if this is true, does anyone know of a way to open the pdf in acrobat and remove these printer's marks.
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::heather malone
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You can try to open them in Illustrator.
Sometimes you can remove them using the object touch up tool in Acrobat - just be careful nothing else is deleted with it.
Surely you are laying out your adverts in a page layout programme? InDesign or quark? Leave the file as it is and place it in a picture box the correct size for the advert and centre it. I'm not sure what the problem is....
Don't rasterise if at all possible.
living on dreams and custard creams.
What monkey said. You crop out the crop marks in the picture frame of InDesign/Quark.
Without my sense of direction, I don't know where I'd be.
i will certainly give that a try monkey. but my troubles usually stem from clients always giving me their ad in the wrong size. and i have to cheat and just "fit to box" - sad but true.
::heather malone
Experiment with holding SHIFT-COMMAND-OPTION and move the frame handles with your cursor. Also, check out holding OPTION and moving the image within the frame.
I'm on CS5 so hopefully that functionality is present in older versions of INDD. It's custom made for doing exactly what you want to do.
Without my sense of direction, I don't know where I'd be.
CS3 INDD has none of this functionality. CS4 INDD a limited ability. Well, that's all I got.
Without my sense of direction, I don't know where I'd be.
Quark has had that since version 3 (1991?)
Yeah - I'm soooooooooo glad I switched to ID. ;-)
To remove the cropmarks from the pdf you can do it in two ways.
1. Acrobat professional: Use the crop tool (you will find it under the document menu), make a crop box and double click in it. You wil get a window with all kinds of options where you can adjust the size and the cropping.
2. In Indesign you place the PDF but before double clicking it you check 'Show import options'. You get a new window, at the bottom you can choose what you want to happen with the import by choosing, art, trim box, bleed and so on.
hope this helps