Oh God, this was so long ago that I had dealt with this issue. I am suddenly forced to work on another Mac today but I notice that I do not have the custom marks available. We prefer the regular bullets not the Indesign defaults and I don't have that .mrk file here......
I think it was Matt Beals who had sent me a file that I loaded into Indesign years back to make them available. (RIP Matt).
Does anyone have this? It's the bullet that looks like the old Quark ones did, a circle with a horizontal and vertical line in the middle.
Thanks.
Like this one?
No that is the one that our pressmen do not like.
Its like a simple circle with a plus sign in the middle. You got your O then inside the O got your +.
Like the old quack ones.
Here is InDesigns crop mark in the Scripts
I ahve this .eps / .pdf in my Preps marks folder (along with the ones you don't want)
Yes I love all this, but, there is a .mrk file you can load in somewhere in indesign when on pdf export you can select other than default and bang, there you go!
Maybe i sm missing something here!
Sorry, other than default on the marks setting.
You can select the marks you want when printing from Acrobat. Not sure if something like this used to be in InDesign or not.
Yes, like that, in InDesign too
There is a place in InDesign for something like that but a google search finds results how to add Japanese marks in there but I didn't find anything about quark marks in there.
I went back to InDesign CS4 and the option is not in there so it must have been some custom way of adding other marks.
My Mac is back, i will find the file and post when i can.
Okay, it's attached. I see by the date it was installed 14 years ago!
I had dropped it in: Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/PrintSpt/Better_MarksB.mrk
Then when you export your pdf there's an option in the marks area for type and it should appear there. I guess you would have to quit InDesign then reopen.
If I ever move to Japan I will definitely google the "add Japanese crop marks" tutorial.
:rotf:
Thanks for sharing - that is pretty cool!
John
Cool indeed. And it works in the latest version of InDesign.
Yes thanks to Matt Beals, circa 2007.
And yup, I output a form with the default marks and straight up one of our congenial pressmen came running to me complaining they built up too much ink while running. I told him i had been struggling with the main production Mac, new hard drive, installing the operating system twice, running it back and forth to the repair guy, trying to work on the backup Mac which did not have the other marks installed. This guy thinks he is the only one with problems in the world. :drunk3:
Here I am again wondering where to put the .mrk files in Indesign 2024. I found the Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/PrintSpt folder but it's not working in Indesign on my new Mac running Ventura.
Anyone else have any success adding custom marks? (the ones we used look like the simple ones used in QuarkXpress)
Quote from: pspdfppdfxhd on January 02, 2024, 10:55:36 AM(the ones we used look like the simple ones used in QuarkXpress)
Just go back to using Quark and you won't need any custom marks. They are built into Quark. :P
I was hesitant to explain that we wanted marks like Quark because of the risk of inviting a joke. Lo and behold..... i should have just tried to describe what they looked like.
Quote from: pspdfppdfxhd on January 02, 2024, 03:13:36 PMI was hesitant to explain that we wanted marks like Quark because of the risk of inviting a joke. Lo and behold..... i should have just tried to describe what they looked like.
Sorry. It is my year to be a smart ass. Welcome to 2024! :rotf:
Quote from: pspdfppdfxhd on January 02, 2024, 03:13:36 PMI was hesitant to explain that we wanted marks like Quark because of the risk of inviting a joke. Lo and behold..... i should have just tried to describe what they looked like.
I made marks like that to use in Preps. When I was at J&M, the old codgers that ran the place wanted marks that bled off the sheet left, right and top center (not gripper) so that when they looked at a stack, they could see the marks running up and down the three sides. At Sig-1 I used the default Preps side guide mark, which did the same thing.