Reply To: adding spine marks

Bob, excellent, excellent answer! Of course the slug area is a smarter place to put your own hand-drawn marks (because some of the bleed allowance might end up in the final, trimmed piece — that's why you extend artwork into the bleed in the first place).

And to use registration color for those, and .25 line weight.Thanks so much!

I forgot to mention that sometimes, it's quicker to drag out a frame that defines the spine area but extends into the pasteboard (slug area or bleed area) and then use the Make Cropmarks script on that frame. (It's one of the free scripts.) Delete the frame and you're done. Those marks are selectable so you can delete them, change their weight, etc.

AM