From: Erik S. LaBianca (erik@quonic.com)
Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 22:04:19 PDT
Thats a good idea, I'll probably end up doing that. Thanks.
One more question, to hijack my own thread: how can I use pantone spot
colors? The examples I've seen are all using #aabbcc style RGB colors.
We're incorporating some generated pages inline with a some static
content created in Quark, and I need to do two colors, one of them black
and the other one a pantone spot color.
Is this possible without using a preflight tool?
Thanks
--erik
W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
> Erik S. LaBianca wrote:
>
>> I, for one, would be interested in seeing a XEP extension to allow the
>> /BleedBox, etc. It seems like it would be a useful function for those
>> of us creating PDF's primarily for printed output. It would be pretty
>> cool if it could throw in registration too.
>
>
> It's actually pretty easy to do registration marks (and CMYK bars). I
> just created appropriate registration marks and color bars in
> Illustrator as EPS files and then I use one of the edge region with
> absolutely-positioned block containers to place the marks. I use normal
> block-containers with borders to create crop marks. It's actually pretty
> easy to create a registration mark graphic by hand just by typing up an
> EPS directly--it's also a good exercise for learning the Postscript
> drawing commands. Only requires about 15 lines of code to create a
> couple of circles with a cross or to create a circle filled with
> radiating lines.
>
> It just requires using a large enough page size so you have room for the
> registration and crop marks outside the final trimmed page area. By
> using this technique you can also create bleeds since you have plenty of
> extra width in the edge regions.
>
> But it would be handy to be able to set the bleedbox within the PDF.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eliot
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