adding crop marks to pdf

adding crop marks to pdf

Hi

assuming I want add crop marks to pdf (directly to pdf) How can I do this 
task? I'm working in Linux but, if any program is, working in wine, I can 
use this in Linux
-- 
Puppy Linux wiki:  http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
Puppy Linux Forum: http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

On Oct 9, 6:36=A0am, Rowan <rowan.ha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 10:41=A0pm, Lutrin <elic...@olympo.it> wrote:
>
> > Hi
>
> > assuming I want add crop marks to pdf (directly to pdf) How can I do th=
is
> > task? I'm working in Linux but, if any program is, working in wine, I c=
an
> > use this in Linux
> > --
> > Puppy Linux wiki: =A0http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
> > Puppy Linux Forum:http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
> > Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...
>
> Unfortunately there's a serious lack of PDF tools for Linux at the
> moment. What you're trying to do could be accomplished on Windows
> using PDF Enhancer or either Quite Imposing or PitStop Pro, which are
> both plug-ins for Acrobat. But, that's probably not what you're
> looking for.
>
> Hopefully someone has a suggestion for a work around because I wasn't
> able to find any tools for Linux that would let you add crop marks
> directly to a PDF.

If you generate your cropmarks on another blank PDF -- using
OpenOffice, or direct postscript distilled to PDF, or whatever --
pdftk (on Linux) can place them on top of the original.

Or, 20 minutes could get you a java program using the iText library
(in java) that could do the whole thing ab initio.

But pdflatex, as Martin suggests, is even easier if you grok it.

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:18:35 -0700, rpresser ci disse:

> If you generate your cropmarks on another blank PDF --
[...]
interesting

> using OpenOffice,
[...]
unfortunately OpenOffice don't gives any chance to create automatically 
crop marks, but, I can create manually and then export as pdf

> or direct postscript distilled to PDF, or whatever
[...]
with a tryout version of Indesign, I can set a page (17x24 cm in my case) 
with same margins as my pdf file and then export with crop marks. Indesign 
don't work good in Wine on Linux, but I think yhis feature is available at 
least

> pdftk (on Linux) can place them on top of the original.
[...]
as layer? very good, but how do this? what part of pdftk manual I must 
read to perform this task?
-- 
Puppy Linux wiki:  http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
Puppy Linux Forum: http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

Lutrin skrev:

> as layer? very good, but how do this? what part of pdftk manual I must 
> read to perform this task?

Did you try

$ pdftk --help


I think

$ pdftk foobar.pdf stamp crop.pdf output foobar-crop.pdf

should do the job. But the crop marks will not be added as a an
Optional Contents Group (OCG), if that is what you mean by layer.
I don't think that is possible with pdftk.

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:28:38 +0200, Martin Heller ci disse:

> I think
> 
> $ pdftk foobar.pdf stamp crop.pdf output foobar-crop.pdf
> 
> should do the job.
[...]

result of command:

pdftk foobar.pdf stamp crop.pdf output foobar_crop.pdf

Error: Failed to open PDF file: 
   stamp
Errors encountered.  No output created.
Done.  Input errors, so no output created.

it seems that don't recognizes *stamp* command, I will further investigate
-- 
Puppy Linux wiki:  http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
Puppy Linux Forum: http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

Lutrin skrev:

> it seems that don't recognizes *stamp* command, I will further investigate

It seems that you need at least version 1.40 of pdftk in order to
have the stamp operation available. If your version of pdftk is
older you will have to update or use the background operation.

From the pdftk version history:

1.40 - September 19, 2006

    * Added the stamp operation, a natural complement to the
existing background operation.

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:03:18 +0200, Martin Heller ci disse:

> If your version of pdftk is
> older you will have to update or use the background operation
[...]
in fact I was using 1.12 version, I tried today to update pdftk version, 
but I have problems with libgcc_s.so.1

libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.

because my libgcc_s.so.1 is not that version and upgrading may cause 
system instability

it's possible to do same task without upgrading or not?
-- 
Puppy Linux wiki:  http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
Puppy Linux Forum: http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:18:54 +0200, Martin Heller ci disse:

> As I said you can use the background operation.
> 
> Or use the LaTeX approach suggested by Peter Flynn and myself.
[...]
thanks. solved with pdftk 1.12 and background command but I'll try also 
LaTeX way. thanks again
-- 
Puppy Linux wiki:  http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
Puppy Linux Forum: http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:07:57 +0200, Martin Heller ci disse:

> You can use pdflatex. If foobar.pdf is a document formatted on a5paper
> then you can print it on a4 and add cropmarks by running pdflatex on a
> document like below:
[...]
Yes, I have already LaTeX package installed, only my trouble is my page 
has format 17 x 24 cm, so I don't know if this page format is already in 
LaTeX. if not, I think I must add this pageformat before to run your code
-- 
Puppy Linux wiki:  http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
Puppy Linux Forum: http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

Lutrin skrev:
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:07:57 +0200, Martin Heller ci disse:
> Yes, I have already LaTeX package installed, only my trouble is my page 
> has format 17 x 24 cm, so I don't know if this page format is already in 
> LaTeX. if not, I think I must add this pageformat before to run your code

You just have to specify which paper size you are using:

% foobar-crop.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage[paperwidth=17cm,paperheight=24cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[cam,a4,center,pdftex]{crop}

\begin{document}

\includepdf[pages=-]{foobar}

\end{document}

compiling with
$ pdflatex foobar-crop.tex

will get you foobar-crop.pdf.

To see the documentation og the used packages run

$ texdoc geometry
$ texdoc pdfpages
$ texdoc crop

in a terminal.

adding crop marks to pdf

Hi

assuming I want add crop marks to pdf (directly to pdf) How can I do this 
task? I'm working in Linux but, if any program is, working in wine, I can 
use this in Linux
-- 
Puppy Linux wiki:  http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
Puppy Linux Forum: http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

On Oct 9, 6:36=A0am, Rowan <rowan.ha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 10:41=A0pm, Lutrin <elic...@olympo.it> wrote:
>
> > Hi
>
> > assuming I want add crop marks to pdf (directly to pdf) How can I do th=
is
> > task? I'm working in Linux but, if any program is, working in wine, I c=
an
> > use this in Linux
> > --
> > Puppy Linux wiki: =A0http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
> > Puppy Linux Forum:http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
> > Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...
>
> Unfortunately there's a serious lack of PDF tools for Linux at the
> moment. What you're trying to do could be accomplished on Windows
> using PDF Enhancer or either Quite Imposing or PitStop Pro, which are
> both plug-ins for Acrobat. But, that's probably not what you're
> looking for.
>
> Hopefully someone has a suggestion for a work around because I wasn't
> able to find any tools for Linux that would let you add crop marks
> directly to a PDF.

If you generate your cropmarks on another blank PDF -- using
OpenOffice, or direct postscript distilled to PDF, or whatever --
pdftk (on Linux) can place them on top of the original.

Or, 20 minutes could get you a java program using the iText library
(in java) that could do the whole thing ab initio.

But pdflatex, as Martin suggests, is even easier if you grok it.

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:18:35 -0700, rpresser ci disse:

> If you generate your cropmarks on another blank PDF --
[...]
interesting

> using OpenOffice,
[...]
unfortunately OpenOffice don't gives any chance to create automatically 
crop marks, but, I can create manually and then export as pdf

> or direct postscript distilled to PDF, or whatever
[...]
with a tryout version of Indesign, I can set a page (17x24 cm in my case) 
with same margins as my pdf file and then export with crop marks. Indesign 
don't work good in Wine on Linux, but I think yhis feature is available at 
least

> pdftk (on Linux) can place them on top of the original.
[...]
as layer? very good, but how do this? what part of pdftk manual I must 
read to perform this task?
-- 
Puppy Linux wiki:  http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
Puppy Linux Forum: http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

Lutrin skrev:

> as layer? very good, but how do this? what part of pdftk manual I must 
> read to perform this task?

Did you try

$ pdftk --help


I think

$ pdftk foobar.pdf stamp crop.pdf output foobar-crop.pdf

should do the job. But the crop marks will not be added as a an
Optional Contents Group (OCG), if that is what you mean by layer.
I don't think that is possible with pdftk.

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:28:38 +0200, Martin Heller ci disse:

> I think
> 
> $ pdftk foobar.pdf stamp crop.pdf output foobar-crop.pdf
> 
> should do the job.
[...]

result of command:

pdftk foobar.pdf stamp crop.pdf output foobar_crop.pdf

Error: Failed to open PDF file: 
   stamp
Errors encountered.  No output created.
Done.  Input errors, so no output created.

it seems that don't recognizes *stamp* command, I will further investigate
-- 
Puppy Linux wiki:  http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
Puppy Linux Forum: http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

Lutrin skrev:

> it seems that don't recognizes *stamp* command, I will further investigate

It seems that you need at least version 1.40 of pdftk in order to
have the stamp operation available. If your version of pdftk is
older you will have to update or use the background operation.

From the pdftk version history:

1.40 - September 19, 2006

    * Added the stamp operation, a natural complement to the
existing background operation.

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:03:18 +0200, Martin Heller ci disse:

> If your version of pdftk is
> older you will have to update or use the background operation
[...]
in fact I was using 1.12 version, I tried today to update pdftk version, 
but I have problems with libgcc_s.so.1

libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.

because my libgcc_s.so.1 is not that version and upgrading may cause 
system instability

it's possible to do same task without upgrading or not?
-- 
Puppy Linux wiki:  http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
Puppy Linux Forum: http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:18:54 +0200, Martin Heller ci disse:

> As I said you can use the background operation.
> 
> Or use the LaTeX approach suggested by Peter Flynn and myself.
[...]
thanks. solved with pdftk 1.12 and background command but I'll try also 
LaTeX way. thanks again
-- 
Puppy Linux wiki:  http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
Puppy Linux Forum: http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:07:57 +0200, Martin Heller ci disse:

> You can use pdflatex. If foobar.pdf is a document formatted on a5paper
> then you can print it on a4 and add cropmarks by running pdflatex on a
> document like below:
[...]
Yes, I have already LaTeX package installed, only my trouble is my page 
has format 17 x 24 cm, so I don't know if this page format is already in 
LaTeX. if not, I think I must add this pageformat before to run your code
-- 
Puppy Linux wiki:  http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy
Puppy Linux Forum: http://puppylinux.ilbello.com
Windows me genuit, Ubuntu rapuere / tenet nunc Puppy Linux...

Re: adding crop marks to pdf

Lutrin skrev:
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:07:57 +0200, Martin Heller ci disse:
> Yes, I have already LaTeX package installed, only my trouble is my page 
> has format 17 x 24 cm, so I don't know if this page format is already in 
> LaTeX. if not, I think I must add this pageformat before to run your code

You just have to specify which paper size you are using:

% foobar-crop.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage[paperwidth=17cm,paperheight=24cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[cam,a4,center,pdftex]{crop}

\begin{document}

\includepdf[pages=-]{foobar}

\end{document}

compiling with
$ pdflatex foobar-crop.tex

will get you foobar-crop.pdf.

To see the documentation og the used packages run

$ texdoc geometry
$ texdoc pdfpages
$ texdoc crop

in a terminal.