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Printer Mark Length

  • August 13, 2024
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Why are the Printer's crop marks out of illustrator now double the length of indesign when saving PDFs? It's changing the offset of my print files and causing extra work. Is there a setting to change the length of the crop marks? Please don't bother telling me to draw them in the artboard as that is not standard practice in the printing industry in the U.S. Bleed and crop marks are used outside the edge of the artboard always. I don't understand why Adobe keeps changing things that were perfectly functional. It's maddening.

(I could have left out the last couple lines but, I've been using these programs for 20+ years and never seen them this messed up)

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Ton Frederiks
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August 13, 2024

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Why would I add marks in Acrobat when I'm creating files in illustrator? I don't think you quite understand what I'm talking about.

Ton Frederiks
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August 13, 2024

I perfectly understand what you are talking about, this just confirms that the trim marks are different between the applications

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PDF from illustrator...

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PDF from indesign...

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Monika Gause
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August 13, 2024

Could it be that you are working in a Large Canvas document? Those crop marks can get huge.

Ton Frederiks
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August 13, 2024

In regular canvas sized documents, InDesign marks are smaller 5,292 mm versus Illustrator: 9,525 mm.

 

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August 13, 2024

My programs were exporting the same size marks until recently

Anubhav M
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August 13, 2024

Hello @Heather34738646k8xu,

We understand that encountering technical issues can be frustrating. Would you mind sharing more details, like the OS/Illustrator version, whether this behavior started with a recent update, sample files after uploading them to Dropbox/Google Drive/etc. and screenshots of the problem so we can better assist you?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

 

Thanks,

Anubhav

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August 13, 2024
Hello Anubhav,
I am working on Mac OS Ventura 13.6.6 and CS 2024. I noticed the change about a month or so ago.

PDFs Side By Side…
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PDF from indesign… PDF from illustrator…
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I’ve looked but cannot find a place to edit the length of the marks. Am I missing it?

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