Bug 146934

Summary: Dedicated Crop Mark Tool is Needed
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: csongor
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: UNCONFIRMED ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: dgp-mail, olivier.dev, raal, vsfoote
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.2.3.2 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103683
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Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
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Bug Blocks: 99525    
Attachments: sample doc that has crop marks

Description csongor 2022-01-23 11:33:31 UTC 
Description:
I want to print the book I wrote in Writer via a print service. In order to reach the edge of the paper, I used bleeding but printers cannot print right at the edge of the paper. 

Therefore, print services require crop marks on the document, they print a larger area than the final document and then they cut the excess off.

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to add crop marks to the document now. You can add images to each corner and repeat them on every page but this solution is very inconvenient.

It would be better to have a dedicated setting for this, as part of the page style. It should put the 8 lines to the page where the settings say. The line thickness should be 0.5pt.

See the attached document for an illustration.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create for "L" shaped images in GIMP
2. insert them into the header of the page

Actual Results:
It does the job but is too complicated, especially if you have dozens of styles in the document.

Expected Results:
There should be an easier way for adding crop marks.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Please see the attached sample document.
Comment 1 csongor 2022-01-23 11:34:18 UTC 
Created attachment 177722 [details]
sample doc that has crop marks
Comment 2 raal 2022-01-23 12:39:13 UTC 
Duplicate of bug 103683?
Comment 3 V Stuart Foote 2022-01-25 19:08:42 UTC 
yes, appears a duplicate of bug 103683 but that is really for Draw, i.e. a page at a time--ask here is for bleed/crop marks to be provided to Writer ODF pages. 

But then no printer would be processing copy from ODF and we'd be outputting to PDF--and to me that could/should be handled in our PDF export filter.  So not sure it is in scope to work up UI to display on Writer canvas.
Comment 4 Dieter 2023-01-03 08:09:43 UTC 
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #3)
> But then no printer would be processing copy from ODF and we'd be outputting
> to PDF--and to me that could/should be handled in our PDF export filter.  So
> not sure it is in scope to work up UI to display on Writer canvas.

I totally agree this would be a feature of PDF-Export. I never would send an odt-file to a print service. Csongor, please explain, why you think it is needed as a feature in writer.
=> NEEDINFO
Comment 5 csongor 2023-01-04 09:41:58 UTC 
(In reply to Dieter from comment #4)
> (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #3)
> > But then no printer would be processing copy from ODF and we'd be outputting
> > to PDF--and to me that could/should be handled in our PDF export filter.  So
> > not sure it is in scope to work up UI to display on Writer canvas.
> 
> I totally agree this would be a feature of PDF-Export. I never would send an
> odt-file to a print service. Csongor, please explain, why you think it is
> needed as a feature in writer.
> => NEEDINFO

I haven't sent ODT to the print service either. 

Adding the crop marks at the PDF export could also be OK but in that case, I believe it needs to be added manually every time when a new PDF export is created. 

Can this be saved into the ODT file so that the crop mark survives a close-open cycle?
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2023-01-05 03:20:30 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)