Acrobat Professional 8, crop marks

[big3b69]

I am having an issue. I am printing a 4.25x5.5 postcard out on a 8.5x11 with crop marks and no matter how I try the crop marks are printing out 90 degrees rotated clockwise from what it should be. It looks great on the screen but not when I print it out. It does not even matter what printer I send it to. It seems like an Acrobat issue, any ideas?

matt B

 

[metatate]

Re: Acrobat Professional 8, crop marks

I would check your page box sizes (trim box, crop box etc.) -- Document > crop pages. Make sure that is how you expect. If it's ok, maybe it's an issue in your page setup.

 

[WharfRat]

Re: Acrobat Professional 8, crop marks

Sounds like, maybe, you rotated the PDF in Acrobat first.

MSD

 

[big3b69]

Re: Acrobat Professional 8, crop marks

Here is what I found out so far: I opend Pitstop and using global change, define page boxes, the measurements are listed as 4.25x5.75 instead of 5.75x4.24. So I am thinking MSD might be right, when the customer created the PDF, it was portrait not landscape. I do not think there is anyway to change that either. Thanks, Matt B.

 

[rich apollo]

Re: Acrobat Professional 8, crop marks

The simplest way I've found to redefine the page boxes in PDFs is to place them in InDesign and re-export 'em. We have to do that all day every day to correctly size and position for print.

For your purposes, just print from InDesign.