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adding crop marks to individual things on one sheet

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January 22, 2019
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I am going to be printing several of my cards on one A1 sheet so I can then cut it myself, am I able to add individual crop marks for each different card I place on the sheet?

Correct answer Laubender

Hi caitlinl32871084 ,

as long there is a rectangular object or a group that reflects the exact position and size of a card, you could use a script that comes with InDesign to set crop marks.

If not you could easily add rectangles on an additional laye and then do the script action on the rectangles.

Select all rectangles, open Window > Utilities > Scripts.

Under Samples > JavaScript you'll find cropmarks.jsx

Double-click it's name:

A new dialog pops up:

No registration marks needed, so turn off that option:

Run the action with OK. Below the result where I first removed my helper rectangles:

Remove all elements that you do not need. Like the inner cropmarks here with my sample.

The script is just drawing simple graphic lines.

Best do that action with helper rectangles on an additional layer so that you can easily remove elements.

Regards,
Uwe

BobLevine

Community Expert

Or...create the card, export the PDF with cropmarks and place them on your larger sheet.

L

Laubender

Correct answer

Community Expert

Hi caitlinl32871084 ,

as long there is a rectangular object or a group that reflects the exact position and size of a card, you could use a script that comes with InDesign to set crop marks.

If not you could easily add rectangles on an additional laye and then do the script action on the rectangles.

Select all rectangles, open Window > Utilities > Scripts.

Under Samples > JavaScript you'll find cropmarks.jsx

Double-click it's name:

A new dialog pops up:

No registration marks needed, so turn off that option:

Run the action with OK. Below the result where I first removed my helper rectangles:

Remove all elements that you do not need. Like the inner cropmarks here with my sample.

The script is just drawing simple graphic lines.

Best do that action with helper rectangles on an additional layer so that you can easily remove elements.

Regards,
Uwe

Colin Flashman

Community Expert

@Laubender:

It has always frustrated me why the default ID script adds inner cropmarks like those shown in your example.

There is a user-adjusted version of this script that deals with this, along with a bleed offset: https://www.scriptopedia.org/en/js-indesign/122-advancedcropmarks-en.html

If the answer wasn't in my post, perhaps it might be on my blog at colecandoo!

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Colin,

thank you for pointing to this advanced version.

We even can go one step further and wrap all the code into an anonymous function with a doScript() command so we can undo all the script's action in one go:

( function()
{
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.INTERACT_WITH_ALL;
app.doScript
(
    doAdvancedCropMarks,
    ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT,
    [],
    UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT,
    "Do Advanced Crop Marks | SCRIPT"
);
function doAdvancedCropMarks()
{
/* INSERT THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT'S CODE RIGHT AFTER THIS LINE */
/* DO NOT REMOVE OR CHANGE THE CODE AFTER THIS LINE */
}
}() )

The contents of line 13 will show up as:

Undo: Do Advanced Crop Marks | SCRIPT

after running the script.

Regards,
Uwe

vinny38

Legend

Hi

Piece of cake with the "CropMarks" script that comes with Indesign.

Select the objects you want to add crop marks to and go Window > Utilities > Scripts

Run the "CropMarks" script in the "Samples" folder and you're done!

Edit: Vladan shot faster than me ^^

vladan saveljic

Inspiring

select the objects on your page and ran the script CropMarks

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