Affinity Designer placing crop marks

[Nigel D O'Hare]

Hi

Could some one please point me in the right direction for placing crop marks. I've set up a 10mm bleed around my Artboards and exporting to EPS.

Many thanks

Nigel

 

[v_kyr]

See:

• Print Bleed and Crop Marks in Affinity Designer (video)

• Setting bleed (online help)

• Export settings > PDF (include printer marks):

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  Include printers marks

  When selected, the PDF output will show printer marks around the page edge. All printer marks are added by default. However, particular types of printer marks can be switched off, depending on your preference. These include:

  • Crop marks
  • Registration marks
  • Colour and greyscale bars
  • Page information

  Professional printing services often print on larger sheets and trim them to your page design's size. To ensure movement during printing does not result in white edges, make your design fill the document's bleed area, turn on Include bleed to add this information to your PDF file, and turn on Include printers marks to assist with trimming.

• For EPS you have to add/draw those probably yourself onto your document/artboard before exporting, since I don't think there are in ADe such default settable include crop mark export options for that format.

[Nigel D O'Hare]

Thanks for the reply v_kyr. However, the links only show how to add printer marks to PDF's. Unfortunately, the allocated print service I'm using (for exhibition backdrop 3000mm x 2400mm) only accepts EPS. Have I reached an impasse?

 

[Callum]

16 minutes ago, Nigel D O'Hare said:

Thanks for the reply v_kyr. However, the links only show how to add printer marks to PDF's. Unfortunately, the allocated print service I'm using (for exhibition backdrop 3000mm x 2400mm) only accepts EPS. Have I reached an impasse?

 

Hi Nigel not sure if you have seen the last bullet point in V_kyr's post but unfortunately we don't offer automated crop marks for the EPS format. Your best bet would be manually adding them yourself.

[Nigel D O'Hare]

Sorry, I didn't see the last point but that's what I've done.

Many thanks

[joe_l]

23 minutes ago, Nigel D O'Hare said:

Unfortunately, the allocated print service I'm using (for exhibition backdrop 3000mm x 2400mm) only accepts EPS.

Would they accept a .ps file? You just have to print to file. For my test I did it with an Adobe PDF printer driver.

[v_kyr]

Hmm, what's about saving the file as PDF with crop marks first and afterwards reopen that in ADe or Acrobat and (re)saving/(re)exporting it as EPS then? - However it's just an adhoc idea, I'm not sure if that procedure would be giving any accurate result at all, but maybe it's worth a try.