Microsoft KB Archive/59731

Adjusting the Position of Crop Marks

PSS ID Number: Q59731 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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To print crop marks in a document that will be printed to a PostScript printer, use the Crop Marks glossary entry.

Word Version 5.0 and 5.1
The Crop Marks glossary entry, included in the Page Layout Glossary shipped with Word, places crop marks at 1 inch from the edge of the page for the top and bottom margins and 1.25 inches from the edge of the page for the left and right margins. However, there is an error in the PostScript code of this glossary entry. To correct this error, change the three occurrences of “wp$top” to “top” (without the quotation marks) in lines 5-8 of the PostScript code.

To place crop marks at 1 inch from the top, bottom, left, and right edges of the page and correct the error in the PostScript code:

  Insert the following line before the line that reads “/top 72 def”: /inch {72 mul} def   In the lines that start “/top”, “/bottom”, “/left”, and “/right”, change the code to contain the number of inches you want the crop marks to be from the edge of the page. Your code should resemble the following example: /inch {72 mul} def /top 1 inch def /bottom 1 inch def /left 1 inch def /right 1 inch def   Select the PostScript code. Choose Replace from the Edit menu. Fill in the Find What and Replace With boxes as follows: Find What Replace With ——— ———— wp$top top 

Word Versions 3.x and 4.0
The Crop Marks glossary entry, included in the PostScript Glossary shipped with Word, places crop marks at the corners of the document margins.

To place the crop marks at any location, make the following changes to the glossary entry:

Note: To make the text easier to read when you are editing, temporarily change the PostScript code to the Normal style while editing the code.

  Place the insertion point at the beginning of the line that reads “%horizontals”, and insert the following lines: /inch {72 mul} def /top 1 inch def /bottom 1 inch def /left 1 inch def /right 1 inch def   Select the PostScript code. From the Edit menu, choose Replace (in Word 3.x choose Change from the Search menu). Fill in the Find What and Replace With boxes with the following: Find What Change To ——— ——— wp$left left wp$ right right wp$bottom bottom  wp$ top top   Make sure that all the code is formatted in the PostScript style, and that the Print Hidden Text option in the Print dialog box is selected (choose Print from the File menu). 

The following lines set the top, bottom, left, and right margins for the crop marks at 1 inch:

/top 1 inch def /bottom 1 inch def /left 1 inch def /right 1 inch def

To change the position of the crop marks, change the number 1 to the number of inches that you want your crop marks to appear from the edge of the page.

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