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color/colorAll_for_cropmarks

Create crop marks which will be visible on all color separations, using the special color "All". Create a CMYK document by loading a CMYK image and create the special color "All" with make_spotcolor(). Draw some crop marks with standard vector graphics and output some info text outside of the actual page area (i.e. outside of the CropBox).
Test in Acrobat 7 or 8: Show the MediaBox with Document, Crop Pages, Set to Zero. Choose Advanced, (Print Production), Output Preview: All elements with color "All" will be visible in all combinations of separation previews.

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/* $Id: colorAll_for_cropmarks.java,v 1.8 2007/10/30 16:16:35 katja Exp $

 * Color space for crop marks:

 * Create crop marks which will be visible on all color separations, using the

 * special color "All".

 *

 * Create a CMYK document by loading a CMYK image and create the special color

 * "All" with make_spotcolor(). Draw some crop marks with standard vector

 * graphics and output some info text outside of the actual page area (i.e.

 * outside of the CropBox).

 * Test in Acrobat 7 or 8:

 * Show the MediaBox with Document, Crop Pages, Set to Zero.

 * Choose Advanced, (Print Production), Output Preview:

 * All elements with color "All" will be visible in all combinations of

 * separation previews.

 *

 * Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 7

 * Required data: CMYK image

 */

package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.color;


import com.pdflib.pdflib;

import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;


public class colorAll_for_cropmarks

{

    public static void main (String argv[])

    {

    /* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */

    String searchpath = "../input";

    String outfile = "colorAll_for_cropmarks.pdf";

    String title = "Color All for Crop Marks";


    pdflib p = null;

    int font, image, color;

    String imagefile = "lionel.jpg";

    String info = "Lionel watching the big blue lion  Page 1  Wednesday, " +

        "August 01, 2007  8:52 PM";

   

    int pagewidth=842, pageheight=595;


    try {

        p = new pdflib();


        p.set_parameter("SearchPath", searchpath);


        /* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */

        p.set_parameter("errorpolicy", "return");


        if (p.begin_document(outfile, "") == -1)

            throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());


        p.set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");

        p.set_info("Title", title + " $Revision: 1.8 $");


        /* Start the page with a crop box defined with 40 units less than the

         * page size in all directions for placing crop marks and text info

         */

        p.begin_page_ext(pagewidth, pageheight, "cropbox={40 40 802 555}");


        /* Load and fit a CMYK image */

        image = p.load_image("auto", imagefile, "");

        if (image == -1)

            throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());


        p.fit_image(image, 0, 0,

            "boxsize={" + pagewidth + " " + pageheight + "} position=center");


        /* Create the special color "All" to be used for crop marks

         * and info text which will be visible on all color separations.

         */

        color = p.makespotcolor("All");

        p.setcolor("fillstroke", "spot", color, 1, 0, 0);


        /* Draw crop marks within the CropBox */


        /* Draw crop marks at the bottom left */

        p.moveto(0, 20);

        p.lineto(15, 20);

        p.moveto(20, 0);

        p.lineto(20, 15);


        /* Draw crop marks on the top left */

        p.moveto(0, pageheight - 20);

        p.lineto(15, pageheight - 20);

        p.moveto(20, pageheight);

        p.lineto(20, pageheight - 15);

        p.stroke();


        /* Draw crop marks on the top right */

        p.moveto(pagewidth - 20, pageheight);

        p.lineto(pagewidth - 20, pageheight - 15);

        p.moveto(pagewidth, pageheight - 20);

        p.lineto(pagewidth - 15, pageheight - 20);


        /* Draw crop marks at the bottom right */

        p.moveto(pagewidth - 20, 0);

        p.lineto(pagewidth - 20, 15);

        p.moveto(pagewidth, 20);

        p.lineto(pagewidth - 15, 20);


        p.stroke();


        /* Load the font */

        font = p.load_font("Helvetica", "unicode", "");


        if (font == -1)

            throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());


        /* Output some info text outside of the CropBox */

        p.fit_textline(info, 30, 8, "font=" + font + " fontsize=10");


        p.end_page_ext("");


        p.end_document("");


        } catch (PDFlibException e) {

            System.err.print("PDFlib exception occurred:\n");

            System.err.print("[" + e.get_errnum() + "] " + e.get_apiname() +

                ": " + e.get_errmsg() + "\n");

        } catch (Exception e) {

            System.err.println(e.getMessage());

        } finally {

            if (p != null) {

                p.delete();

            }

        }

    }

}