TRY - remove printer marx on this

[WharfRat]

My action takes away art and seems like it would be really dangerous on a large multi paged document where one could not watch all that is happening.

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MSD

[David]

have you tried just selecting the marks and deleting them?

I was able to with this file.

[abc]

You can improve the behaviour by changing the page box in the action from trim box to bleed box, but I agree it's not ideal on a file like this.

I'll get the guys to take a look

[t-pat]

my action worked as-is oops no it didn't.

No time to mess with it, but very interested.

Seems that first selecting trim and bleed boxes based on marks (reg color), then selecting all reg outside of new trim should get us there?

[Joe]

Mine did too...and removed a little extra as well. More for your money. :laugh:

[frailer]

I suppose until you can key in stroke length... diameter... stuff like that, they're hard to home in on. That would be a big ask of PitStop developers, I'd imagine. Was thinking more 'Select Similar'. But that's restricted to a page, correct? (slinks off to check...)

[Joe]

You can improve the behaviour by changing the page box in the action from trim box to bleed box, but I agree it's not ideal on a file like this.

I'll get the guys to take a look

That only removes the outer marks but not the trim marks.

[WharfRat]

I had another one today, as well.
I will find it and post it.

Like I mentioned ...
I don't have a problem doing this on a few pages and "watching out."
But, what about a 200 page catalog file?

I like the idea of this action
because the Adobe apps have the printers marx so darn close to the work by default
and the general artist does not think about them.
I place all my marx at .25 away from the work with .125 bleed (at least)
so ... I do not have to think about it.
Also, I do not use all the color bars and register marx
it all is just a mess.

MSD

[Joe]

We strongly encourage all of our customers to never use register/trim marks.

Edit: If they do put them on the pages they get to re-output them without them.

[abc]

If you look at the construction of the marks they are pretty standard, colored all

So

I made this action which selects 'all' colored strokes and removes them.

Tested on file, works ok, but I would seriously recommend running a preflight to make sure there are not 'all' colored stroke within the trim/bleed box!

Let me know how it goes

[WharfRat]

I can already think of a handful of customers that set artwork to Registration(all) color on every file they submit.
So ..
I doubt that will be something I would use
but I will give it a try.

MSD

[abc]

Ok, so the next step is to firstly fix the 'all' elements inside the trim/bleed box so they are black only, which I guess you do anyway?

then the action works no problem.

OR we limit the action to only work outside the trim/bleed box.

For the file you sent this works ok from my tests.

The issue comes when you get non-standard marks, then it gets complicated