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From: magus@cup.portal.com (Magus - Company)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Crop marks in LaTeX
Message-ID: <34473@cup.portal.com>
Date: 3 Oct 90 00:07:17 GMT
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  I need a macro to put crop marks on pages in LaTeX documents,
so as to indicate cut sheet boundaries.  In other words, the LaTeX
output is originally printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper, but the cut sheet 
size for the final printed document will be smaller (say 7 x 8.5 inches).
(The cut sheet size is determined by \textwidth, \textheight,
left margins, header and footer height, etc.)
The crop marks appear outside of the cut sheet area, and indicate
the edges of the cut sheet.  The crop marks consist of short
horizontal and vertical lines near the cut sheet boundaries, and
should appear on all pages (including new Chapter pages).

.....................
.   |         |     .
.__ __________  __  .
.   |         |     .
.   | Cut     |     .
.   | sheet   |     .
.   | region  |     .
.__ |_________| __  <---
.                   .   |
.   |         | <----- Crop marks.
.                   .
.....................   <---  Laser-printer paper size.


I haven't the faintest idea of how to do this.  Can anyone tell me?

Kevin Thompson
thompson@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov