Missing Crop Marks When Exporting to PDF?

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
December 30, 2016
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When I export a PDF for print using the PDF/X1a:2001 preset as I have done for my entire career as a designer and specify crop marks no crop marks appear in the exported PDF. Any reason why this all of a sudden started to happen recently? I am still using CS6.

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BobLevine

Community Expert

Did you allow enough bleed and offset for the crop marks?

As an aside, why are you using X1-a? It’s a horribly archaic format and not recommended any longer. PDF/X-4 is a far better choice for any modern workflow.

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laurenw90295129Author

Participant

Yes, bleed and offset are included.

I have done this thousands of times before and it worked, just wondering why all of a sudden it no longer does.

If I use another preset such as, Press Quality, the bleed and crop marks appear.

Many times printers specify that X1-a setting.

Lauren

BobLevine

Community Expert

What version of InDesign? What operating system?

Can you provide a screen shot or two of your PDF export dialog windows?

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

PDF X1a does not apply crop marks as a default. You can turn them on using the options on the right to create a modified version of PDF X1a. My guess is you did this a while ago and have been running on last used settings and it reset.

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laurenw90295129Author

Participant

I add the crop marks.

I am a book designer so I know how to export the PDF, I've checked the settings, still no crop marks, very strange.

Lauren

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