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liu

2005-10-05, 6:15 pm

It seems that Illustrator allows only 1 cropping area. I'm printing a
page with multiple business cards on it. Each card is inside a
rectangle. I can just draw multiple lines as cropping guides but wonder
if there is a simpler way?

Thanks,

liu

steggy

2005-10-05, 6:15 pm

liu wrote:
>
> It seems that Illustrator allows only 1 cropping area. I'm printing a
> page with multiple business cards on it. Each card is inside a
> rectangle. I can just draw multiple lines as cropping guides but wonder
> if there is a simpler way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> liu


What do you mean by "cropping guides".......my guess is you
mean "Trim Marks" to cut them out?

Depending what your Illustrator version is.

a. If you draw a rectangle, Object > Crop Marks makes Crop Marks
b. Filter > Create > Trim Marks makes........duh

That is version 10.
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steg
liu

2005-10-05, 6:15 pm

> b. Filter > Create > Trim Marks makes........

This works perfectly. Object > Crop Area > Make allows only one.

Thank you so much for the help,

liu

d00de

2005-10-06, 6:16 pm

On 5 Oct 2005 14:58:56 -0700, liu wrote:

>
> This works perfectly. Object > Crop Area > Make allows only one.
>
> Thank you so much for the help,
>
> liu


Trim marks != crop marks... at least not in illustrator.
steggy

2005-10-06, 6:16 pm

d00de wrote:
>
> On 5 Oct 2005 14:58:56 -0700, liu wrote:
>
>
> Trim marks != crop marks... at least not in illustrator.


Nope, I wanted to make that clear in the last one.

For the OP: making crop marks result in marks you cannot
select and will not print. I assume they are meant for
export to other software or the web.,

Trim marks will print, to be able to trim the design to the
measurements you need.
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steg
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