El mié, 26-11-2008 a las 10:10 +0000, inkscape-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net escribió:
I'm not convinced by the V shape. It really looks too exotic to me. But what about a multi-colored circle (your left drawing) and a cross below it (svg attached)?
-- Nicolas
Hi! Thaks for your work in this useful extension. I'd like to know if you considered applying the marks to a selection (using the bbox rectangle as limit) as an option. Applying the marks to the artwork area is fine, but in certain situations you need to use the paper area as a container for several originals (for instance, placing front and rear of a brochure in a same document). Of course there's an easy workaround, and it only takes to create a document sized as one of the originals and reuse the crop marks in the other, but crop marks to selection would be very useful anyway. I've just read a previous comment, and the author of the "cut marks" extension offers you to join forces and work together. Your extension looks more polished than the other, but it already has the feature I mention (using the selection's bbox as area for the crop marks). It would be nice to add that to your extension.
Another interesting feature would be using guides as placeholders for fold or die-punch marks.
About the registration marks discussion, I also find the V shapes too exotic. Generally I only see superposed circles with crosses in C, M, Y and K channels. However, I don't see anything wrong with using both. The circles with crosses on the corners, and the V shapes on the middle. What do you think?
Hi Guillermo,
I'd like to know if you considered applying the marks to a selection (using the bbox rectangle as limit) as an option. ... and the author of the "cut marks" extension offers you to join forces and work together.
We (Aurélio and me) are ok to work together and plan to add this option.
Another interesting feature would be using guides as placeholders for fold or die-punch marks.
Looks far more complex... Why not. But probably not in a near future.
About the registration marks discussion, I also find the V shapes too exotic. Generally I only see superposed circles with crosses in C, M, Y and K channels. However, I don't see anything wrong with using both. The circles with crosses on the corners, and the V shapes on the middle. What do you think?
I first wanted to keep it as simple as possible (and close to Scribus behaviour), and I have no plan to add that kind of mark in the corner. Should be a community debate. I finally choose Juca's option and replaced circles by V shapes.
Thanks for your comments. -- Nicolas
Guillermo Espertino wrote:
About the registration marks discussion, I also find the V shapes too exotic. Generally I only see superposed circles with crosses in C, M, Y and K channels.
This is purely out of general interest, as I do not pretend to have any notion of what is useful when it comes to printing (and I certainly have no interest in the matter). But a few people have commented on the V shapes being "exotic", why is that a problem? What does it matter what shape the registration mark has, as long as it allows you to detect misregistrations?
First, thanks for very useful extension.
What does it matter what shape the registration mark has, as long as it allows you to detect misregistrations?
There is difference. First, the marks should be placed to corners, because in cornerst the possible misplacement is the biggest, so you could detect it easier (the worst place would be to place it to very middle of image, where possible rotation would be unnoticed at all).
Everything else is explained in example included.
Mattias
Mattias wrote:
First, thanks for very useful extension.
What does it matter what shape the registration mark has, as long as it allows you to detect misregistrations?
There is difference. First, the marks should be placed to corners, because in cornerst the possible misplacement is the biggest, so you could detect it easier (the worst place would be to place it to very middle of image, where possible rotation would be unnoticed at all).
Everything else is explained in example included.
Thanks for the explanation it's very illustrative.
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