Placing crop marks
For print production, you can place crop marks around specific
objects in your document. This is useful when you want to control the
exact placement of crop marks, or you want to output several illustra-
tions with crop marks around each illustration on one page.
Crop marks are short vertical and horizontal lines that indicate the
border where an illustration or page can be trimmed.
When you use the Crop Marks commands, Canvas draws the crop
marks as vector lines on the current layer in the document. Each crop
mark consists of two lines. You can select the lines and perform oper-
ations on them as you would other vector objects.
To place crop marks
1
Select the objects you want to place crop marks around. You
can select one or more objects of any type.
2
Choose Object > Options > Crop Marks.
3
The Crop Marks dialog box appears. In the Outset box, enter
the distance you want the crop boundary to be from the selection.
If one object is selected, the selection boundary is the
objects bounding box.
If more than one object is selected, the selection boundary is
the smallest rectangle that would enclose all the selected
objects.
4
Select the Use Registration Ink option to assign Registration
ink color to the crop marks. Registration ink appears black, but it
prints on all plates when you output color separations. This option
should be selected if you want the crop marks to print on all plates.
5
Click OK to create the crop marks.
Crop marks