hello friends and neighbors of the printing and designing trade,
inkspace is a quite marvelous tool - if only i could figure out how to incorporate the wretched print and crop marks in the pdf that goes to the printers. any assistance would be gratefully appreciated,
To clarify what is requested. Do you mean adding crop marks like these? I've used what I thought were bleed margins when printing on some DVDs and crop marks for my pdf where I print and use the crop marks as cut guides. Don't mind me I'm probably confused by the terminology but I did learn another feature for adding the crop marks to my projects. Was manually creating them before. Thanks.
I would like to clarify some points which made things clearer for me. First I have worked in the printing world much of my life so normally I would design my artwork and then use a tool like InDesign to place it for printing. I still work roughly in the print industry (IT for a company that makes commercial RIP software), but I have no reason to pay for Adobe at home so I use Inkscape.
I wanted to print some artwork I designed which has a finished size of 11" X 17" with full bleeds. I spent quite a bit of time looking around in Inkscape before just drawing my own. Something about this settling didn't sit right with me so off I go to Google my way into a fix. Found this thread and a few others and figured out the following which should help at least some of you who are now in the position I was in:
So given my above 11x17 example, with the document at that size set yourself some guides .5" outside of your document. Extend your bleeding artwork out to roughly the marks (doesn't have to be perfect). The idea being that we're aiming for a 1/4" bleed.
Next, go to 'Extensions --> Render --> Layout --> Printing Marks, and under the 'Marks' tab select the 'Crop Marks' box (or bleed whichever you prefer), click the 'Positioning' tab, and choose "Canvas" from the 'Set crop mars to:' pull-down, and set the 'Offset" to 0.25 with the 'Unit' set to "in".
Now follow Tyler's instructions above which will automatically save the document as a pdf sized 12" x 18". (I happened to use 12.7 as my bleed setting but 20 is just as good I'm sure, 12.7 is simply 1/4" in mm).
This is the part I got confused over because I knew that is the size paper I would be printing on but didn't know how to set that as the size the file would save as when using the crop marks tool. The crop marks are created as an additional layer which is at the top.
Anyway, I hope this helps some poor sop like me in the future.
I'm very confused, I've just installed v1.31 and the .pdf properties dialog dies not include the 'Bleed Margin' setting indicated in Taylor Durden's comment. Or is there another version of this dislog eksewehere in the program? This is in the export section
Beyond the Basics crop marks for pages and bleed
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hello friends and neighbors of the printing and designing trade,
inkspace is a quite marvelous tool - if only i could figure out how to incorporate the wretched print and crop marks in the pdf that goes to the printers. any assistance would be gratefully appreciated,
keep on truckin', tomas
When saving a copy as PDF, I set the bleed margins to 20mm or so.
To clarify what is requested. Do you mean adding crop marks like these? I've used what I thought were bleed margins when printing on some DVDs and crop marks for my pdf where I print and use the crop marks as cut guides. Don't mind me I'm probably confused by the terminology but I did learn another feature for adding the crop marks to my projects. Was manually creating them before. Thanks.
I would like to clarify some points which made things clearer for me. First I have worked in the printing world much of my life so normally I would design my artwork and then use a tool like InDesign to place it for printing. I still work roughly in the print industry (IT for a company that makes commercial RIP software), but I have no reason to pay for Adobe at home so I use Inkscape.
I wanted to print some artwork I designed which has a finished size of 11" X 17" with full bleeds. I spent quite a bit of time looking around in Inkscape before just drawing my own. Something about this settling didn't sit right with me so off I go to Google my way into a fix. Found this thread and a few others and figured out the following which should help at least some of you who are now in the position I was in:
So given my above 11x17 example, with the document at that size set yourself some guides .5" outside of your document. Extend your bleeding artwork out to roughly the marks (doesn't have to be perfect). The idea being that we're aiming for a 1/4" bleed.
Next, go to 'Extensions --> Render --> Layout --> Printing Marks, and under the 'Marks' tab select the 'Crop Marks' box (or bleed whichever you prefer), click the 'Positioning' tab, and choose "Canvas" from the 'Set crop mars to:' pull-down, and set the 'Offset" to 0.25 with the 'Unit' set to "in".
Now follow Tyler's instructions above which will automatically save the document as a pdf sized 12" x 18". (I happened to use 12.7 as my bleed setting but 20 is just as good I'm sure, 12.7 is simply 1/4" in mm).
This is the part I got confused over because I knew that is the size paper I would be printing on but didn't know how to set that as the size the file would save as when using the crop marks tool. The crop marks are created as an additional layer which is at the top.
Anyway, I hope this helps some poor sop like me in the future.
I'm very confused, I've just installed v1.31 and the .pdf properties dialog dies not include the 'Bleed Margin' setting indicated in Taylor Durden's comment. Or is there another version of this dislog eksewehere in the program? This is in the export section
In the export dialog make sure to check "document" and not "page" to include cropping/bleed marks.
Thanks, I thought I did buut I'll check
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/8875