[Scribus] registration marks in 1.3.4
Gregory Pittman
gpittman
Sun Oct 14 16:36:55 CEST 2007
Marc Sabatella wrote:
> I am using 1.3.4 in part because of the support for registration marks
> and other pre-press features (well, also, just because it's
> there...). I am generally finding how to accomplish what I want
> (design of CD packaging), but I haven't figured out how to actually
> use the registration mark facility. My printer wants registration
> marks on the PDF file for the CD itself (not for the booklet or tray
> card), and they want them 82.5mm from the center of the CD. They
> haven't made clear how big the page size of the actual document should
> be, so I'm just making it a 300mm square for now. It seems no matter
> what I enter as the "offset" in the registration field of the PDF
> export dialog, I get registration marks that hug the edges. I'm sure
> I'm misunderstanding something about these things are supposed to
> work, but I couldn't find any documentation on this feature. Is this
> feature working, or should I just create registration marks manually
> using polygons, line, etc?
Here's an example of this:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Scribus_Guided_Tour:6
but it doesn't show or link to an explanation about how to do it (easily).
Greg
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