Print Crop Marks with Spreads

[Gorgette5483]

2023 Vertical copy.afpub Hello! 

I am designing a planner that is a little smaller than a half-letter size. I have no idea how to set it up to print booklet style. Do I need to export to PDF as 'All Pages' or 'All Spreads'? I tried using 'All Spreads' but I need a trim mark between the two halves of the paper. Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Komatös]

Hi @Gorgette5483 and welcome to the forums.

Your page layout is a little "confusing".

Master pages should only contain recurring and/or leading content (e.g. page numbers, current date, etc).

If you want to print documents with facing pages, the total number of pages must be divisible by four.

2023 Vertical copy with facing pages.afpub

 

[Gorgette5483]

I use the master slides to save the page layouts and keep the texts in the same position. The file I provided was just an example, not a complete planner.

I know how to print facing pages. My issue is printing two pages of my document on one piece of paper and having the cuts marks down the center of the page. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

[thomaso]

14 hours ago, Gorgette5483 said:

My issue is printing two pages of my document on one piece of paper and having the cuts marks down the center of the page. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

I am not sure what "down the center" means in English. (and unfortunately I am unable to open V2 documents). So just in case:

To print 2 pages of a document on 1 sheet you can use the N-Up option. Your driver may vary, in my example (no bleed used) I have to set the print size manually (to create enough space for the marks) + need to choose according offset values to position the pages & to create space for the center marks if wanted for left and right separately. Unfortunately the in the center the horizontal marks don't get created, even with large 'HGap' offset.

The attached PDFs were created with the print-to-pdf option: print w cropmarks 1.pdf    print w cropmarks 2.pdf

[Alfred]

3 hours ago, thomaso said:

I am not sure what "down the center" means in English.

Down the center/centre is the same as down the middle. In other words, from the top to the bottom of the page, halfway between the left-and right-hand edges.

[thomaso]

52 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Down the center/centre is the same as down the middle. In other words, from the top to the bottom of the page, halfway between the left-and right-hand edges.

Thanks, sorry, I still don't get it. Do I understand right its an expression for a vertical axis in the horizontal middle? – But why for the requested "cut marks"? They don't go "from top to bottom" (are rather short, subtle strokes) and they don't have to be in the middle of a page (rather around it), right? – Or does it mean any location in the horizontal centre, so for instance 'near the top' | 'the centre point' | 'in the lower half'?

However, does one of my screenshots or PDFs above show any mark "down the center"? I assume the two registration marks between the two layout pages do. How about the cut marks in the second screenshot, they are between the pages but not in the middle of the spread, are they nonetheless "down the center" of the layout spread (≠ the print sheet)?

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, thomaso said:

Thanks, sorry, I still don't get it. Do I understand right its an expression for a vertical axis in the horizontal middle?

Sorry, you do get it!

1 hour ago, thomaso said:

But why for the requested "cut marks"? They don't go "from top to bottom" (are rather short, subtle strokes) and they don't have to be in the middle of a page (rather around it), right?

In a case like this they don’t go all the way from the top to the bottom, as either a continuous line or a dashed line: as you observed, they’re rather short and subtle. I’m afraid I misspoke when I referred to “the page”: I should have said “the sheet”. So they’re like the little round marks between the left and right pages in your screenshots (except that, as you hinted, they should be more subtle).

[Gorgette5483]

Sorry, I don’t understand how you got the marks in the middle? Is there a dumbed down version of how to do that? 

[Oufti]

17 hours ago, Alfred said:

So they’re like the little round marks between the left and right pages in your screenshots (except that, as you hinted, they should be more subtle).

These are in fact — as indicated by @thomaso — Registration marks. They are not intended to indicate where to cut ; they serve to check correct alignment (registration) of the four colours. But they can be a sort of guide for cutting. 

You probably can choose them in your printer settings (but it depends on the printer).