Distiller 8 - Wrong trim box offset

[artpear]

Hello everyone,

I dont know if that problem has been discussed before...

I use Quark 7.5 and Distiller 8 to generate PDFs, when i open the pages in Acrobat 8 to view and go to crop pages, the ART, TRIM and BLEED BOX values are wrong, they are offset to 0,0 at the bottom left !!!

As anybody had that issue before ????

Art

 

[toronar]

How do you create the postscript files for Distiller?
Quark has never embedded the information for PDF-boxes (be it trim-, art-, or bleed-box) into its postscript when you print a job.

There are 3 ways to get correct trim-/bleed-boxes from Quark's postscript:
1) use Quark's PDF-Export and tell it (Preferences) to output a postscript file for distilling instead of a PDF
2) use an XTension to embed the box-information into the postscript file when printing (like MediaBox MediaBoxXT - JoLauterbach Software GmbH)
3) use a Distiller Startup file that teaches Distiller to interpret Quark's cut marks and set the trim-/bleed-box accordingly (Impressed - Produkte: Impressed Distiller Secrets)

Solution 1) is free, the others you will have to buy.
Adobe has code inside Distiller to automatically set trim-/bleed-box if it encounters a postscript from Quark 3-5; but for 6-8 you will need one of the solutions above.

 

[michaelejahn]

@ Tononar,

Just to clarify - unless the PostScript printer driver injects setdistiller params - or distiller encounters PDFMARK commands - you are correct - without additional help, Quark, Microsoft Word and most applications will not emit PostScript that will - wen processed by Distiller - will generate PDF files with proper BleedBox and TrimBox objects.

@ artpear

I believe that Quark - for some time now - provides a method to export PDF directly (without using PostScript and Distiller). I wonder why it is that you would choose to not use that. If you are dead set on doing things the old fashioned way, perhaps you might gleen some useful infomation from this web site;

Sports Illustrated: PDF Guide - Direct2Time

hope this helps !