Re: What are cropMarks

Crop marks are used by printing house to understand where to crop page.
Content might be placed outside page for various reasons so printing houses
should be notified where page ends by pdf producer using crop marks.

On Apr 20, 2017 4:27 PM, "Mike Driscoll" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to figure out what all the arguments to the Canvas object do
> and noticed that there is a cropMarks argument. The docstring says the
> following:
>
> cropMarks may be True/False or an object with parameters borderWidth,
> markColor, markWidth       and markLength
>
> What kind of object can be passed? Are the cropMarks supposed to tell the
> developer where the PDF might be cropped when printed? Are they showing the
> border of the document?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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