[X4U] Printing PDFs without crop-marks...

James S Jones jsjones at mac.com
Thu Jul 21 11:20:52 PDT 2005


What is the cropped size of the pages? If it matches your printer's 
page size, it's possible all you need to do is print from Acrobat, 
setting page scaling to 'none' and making sure auto-rotate and 
centering is checked.

On Jul 21, 2005, at 5:59 AM, Stroller wrote:

> I've just purchased a CD-ROM containing a selection of back-issues of 
> a small magazine, which are supplied in PDF format. The PDFs have a 
> crop-mark on each side and a timestamp as a header, presumably just as 
> they were sent to the printers.
>
> I haven't tried printing these articles yet, but I'm assuming Preview 
> will include the crop marks and header in it's output. Is this the 
> case, and if so how do I avoid it? I suppose I could manually crop 
> each article, but I was hoping there would be a way to do this 
> automatically.
>
> I have Adobe Acrobat Professional, but am not terribly familiar with 
> it (it was included as part of the Creative Suite, which I bought for 
> Illustrator & the other tools) - perhaps this might do what I require?
>
> I intend to print in colour on a Canon Pixima IP3000, for what it's 
> worth.



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