[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 103396] Trim marks are not available for use when a professional printer requires them

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103396

--- Comment #2 from Taylor <smocktaylor@gmail.com> ---
I have done what you suggest with various documents, i.e. making the page
"bigger" to accommodate bleed/crop marks, and so on. I just have to figure out
how to add crop marks to the document -- the border section of the page dialog
doesn't quite get me what I want. If I could have the borders go all the way to
the edge of the page, it would be better. 


Workarounds for items mentioned in initial bug report:
Make page size larger than required (allows for bleed)
Add borders (KIND OF ACTS LIKE CROP MARKS, may have some black borders on final
piece) around entire page, change "spacing to contents" and margins
appropriately
Export to PDF and then use ghostscript to convert to CMYK.


For reference, I use the following command to convert to pdfs to the CMYK color
space (which is why I was requesting an enhancement on crop marks):

#!/usr/bin/env bash
gs \
        -o "cmyk-${1}" \
        -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
        -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK \
        -sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK \
        -sColorConversionStrategyForImages=CMYK \
        -dEncodeColorImages=false \
        -dOverrideICC \
        "${1}"

I probably should have focused on writer, since that is the program used when
creating business cards from the menu, instead of mentioning draw.


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After typing that all up, crop marks might go better in the "Page Style"
"Borders" section.

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