Hans, I have the following sample: \setuppapersize[A5][A4] \setuplayout [marking=on] \setupexternalfigure[location=default] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \starttext \externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth] \stoptext These cut marks are lost after the first cut. Would it be possible to have a marking=crossed such as the one proposed in the attachment? (BTW, I added them by hand with Inkscape, this is why they look awful.) Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk
On 11/28/2017 9:29 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
Hans,
I have the following sample:
\setuppapersize[A5][A4] \setuplayout [marking=on] \setupexternalfigure[location=default] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \starttext \externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth] \stoptext
These cut marks are lost after the first cut.
Would it be possible to have a marking=crossed such as the one proposed in the attachment?
(BTW, I added them by hand with Inkscape, this is why they look awful.) \setuplayout [marking=on,location=middle]
----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 11/28/2017 11:48 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 11/28/2017 9:29 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
[...] Would it be possible to have a marking=crossed such as the one proposed in the attachment?
(BTW, I added them by hand with Inkscape, this is why they look awful.) \setuplayout [marking=on,location=middle]
Many thanks for your reply, Hans. Sorry, but this isn’t what I indend. I want to avoid centering the page, because I need to cut the paper only twice (instead of four times). The new attachment shows in red the missing marks. (Bottom marks only contain the missing ones, although the other two are also required, such as in the top marks.) Could this be implemented? I come to this proposal after having to mark myself the sheets that I wanted to cut. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Pablo Rodriguez
On 11/28/2017 11:48 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 11/28/2017 9:29 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
[...] Would it be possible to have a marking=crossed such as the one proposed in the attachment?
(BTW, I added them by hand with Inkscape, this is why they look awful.) \setuplayout [marking=on,location=middle]
Many thanks for your reply, Hans.
Sorry, but this isn’t what I indend. I want to avoid centering the page, because I need to cut the paper only twice (instead of four times).
The new attachment shows in red the missing marks. (Bottom marks only contain the missing ones, although the other two are also required, such as in the top marks.) I think it can easily done with a layer, but the scope of the crop marks is to make a "clean" cut; adding more marks as in your example means that the final sheets can still have a "dirty" remain of inks of the marks.
The marks as in ConTeXt are ok, the trick is don't cut too much --- see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnOyOI7sjsg -- luigi
On 11/29/2017 09:53 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
I think it can easily done with a layer, but the scope of the crop marks is to make a "clean" cut; adding more marks as in your example means that the final sheets can still have a "dirty" remain of inks of the marks.
Hi Luigi, there are some cases (when you don’t want a middle location), in which you need marks inside).
The marks as in ConTeXt are ok, the trick is don't cut too much --- see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnOyOI7sjsg
I don’t mean that the marks are wrong. But it is impossible to have a left or right location and cut the paper with a trimmer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_cutter). This is why a crossed marking makes sense. Many thanks for your reply, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk
On 12/3/2017 8:47 AM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 11/29/2017 09:53 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
I think it can easily done with a layer, but the scope of the crop marks is to make a "clean" cut; adding more marks as in your example means that the final sheets can still have a "dirty" remain of inks of the marks.
Hi Luigi,
there are some cases (when you don’t want a middle location), in which you need marks inside).
The marks as in ConTeXt are ok, the trick is don't cut too much --- see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnOyOI7sjsg
I don’t mean that the marks are wrong.
But it is impossible to have a left or right location and cut the paper with a trimmer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_cutter).
This is why a crossed marking makes sense.
inside of what you cut off? so you see a line there? if so, then it's part of the page content and should be done with overlays (otherwise we add features that are hard to explain and seldom used and forgotten) the only thing that helps against the marke being cut off is to draw a frame so i'll add \setuplayout[marking=page] which draws a dashed outline just outside the page (so one can cut there and still get the right size) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 12/03/2017 12:23 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 12/3/2017 8:47 AM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
[...] This is why a crossed marking makes sense.
the only thing that helps against the marke being cut off is to draw a frame so i'll add
\setuplayout[marking=page]
which draws a dashed outline just outside the page (so one can cut there and still get the right size)
Hans, many thanks for the new implementation and for your help. Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk
On 29.11.2017 21:11, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
Could this be implemented?
I come to this proposal after having to mark myself the sheets that I wanted to cut.
I have an old module t-crop that offers this kind of marks, I don't think it was ever really published. I hope this makes it through to the list. It offers 3 different kinds of marks, size and position can be configured. Maybe this can help you. Thomas
On 11/29/2017 10:28 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On 29.11.2017 21:11, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
Could this be implemented?
I come to this proposal after having to mark myself the sheets that I wanted to cut.
I have an old module t-crop that offers this kind of marks, I don't think it was ever really published. I hope this makes it through to the list. It offers 3 different kinds of marks, size and position can be configured. Maybe this can help you.
Many thanks for your reply and the module, Thomas. I’m afraid that this doesn’t help me, because it requires a middle location. This is exactly what I need to avoid. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk
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