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    • August 12, 2010 at 12:46 pm #56662
      Julie Arnold
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      Surely this has been asked before, but I cannot find the answer, so I'm sorry if this is redundant.

      I am trying to create a document that is full bleed (.125″) that will print 2-Up on an 8.5×11 page. I know that I must start with the final document size and then allow for the crop space. I have eveything figured out except how to print the crop marks between the two parts of the page.

      BTW – I'm using InDesign CS3 and have David Blatner's Real World ID-CS3 book, but haven't figured out where this is discussed there either. Page numbers welcome!

      Thanks in advance!

    • August 12, 2010 at 1:55 pm #56664
      David Blatner
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      Hi Julie, glad you got the book; thanks!

      In general, people usually just create the artwork on the page, draw trim marks around it and duplicate the whole thing. (For example, Option/Alt-Shift-drag to duplicate exactly down the page.

      You can use the CropMarks.jsx script in the Scripts panel to create the crop marks for you if you have a single frame the size of the final artwork. Just select that and run the script by double-clicking on it.

      Or am I missing something?

    • August 18, 2010 at 7:08 am #56732
      Julie Arnold
      Member

      Thanks for the info David! The script didn't work for me, or perhaps I just haven't quite figured it out yet. I ended up just drawing in the crops and that seemed to work just fine. I was nervous doing that because I didn't think it would be precise enough, but it worked.

      Thanks too for writing the book. It was really helpful when I was “still in the industry” and it's still my first go-to resource when I'm working on my own projects. When I was still a working woman, I managed a team of desktop publishers. Our company had us working on FrameMaker 7.0 and it just was not the right tool for what they wanted us to do. I tried to get them to switch to InDesign and your book and Lynda tutorials were what I used to teach myself ID. I almost had them convinced to switch, but then I decided I wanted to get married and move across the country instead. The last I heard they were still stuck in Frame. I still feel a slight bit guilty about that! :)

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