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.php,v 1.2 2009/05/29 15:21:18 rp 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
*/
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
$searchpath = "../input";
$outfile = "";
$title = "Color All for Crop Marks";
$imagefile = "lionel.jpg";
$info = "Lionel watching the big blue lion Page 1 Wednesday, " .
"August 01, 2007 8:52 PM";
$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");
$p->set_parameter("textformat", "utf8");
if ($p->begin_document($outfile, "") == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
$p->set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
$p->set_info("Title", $title);
/* 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 == 0)
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 == 0)
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("");
$buf = $p->get_buffer();
$len = strlen($buf);
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=colorAll_for_cropmarks.pdf");
print $buf;
} catch (PDFlibException $e) {
die("PDFlib exception occurred:\n".
"[" . $e->get_errnum() . "] " . $e->get_apiname() .
": " . $e->get_errmsg() . "\n");
} catch (Exception $e) {
die($e->getMessage());
}
$p=0;
?>