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I have been looking in to getting trim and registration marks on my PDF, with not much success i.e

<?xep-pdf-crop-offset 10mm?>
<?xep-pdf-crop-mark-width 0.2mm?>
<?xep-pdf-bleed 2mm?>
<?xep-pdf-bleed-mark-width 0.2mm?>
<?xep-pdf-pdf-x Sets PDX/X-3?>

But nothing is shown apart from the 10mm border? can anyone help oe point me to a working example?

Many thanks

Hello,

The transformation pipeline must include a XEP specific step: add the XEP processing instructions to the XSL-FO file and apply XEP on the result XSL-FO to get the final PDF result with registration marks. In oXygen you can create an external tool in Options -> Preferences -> XML -> XSLT/FO/XQuery -> FO Processors and use it in the transformation scenario as the FO processor. You have to insert the processing instructions with the stylesheet which performs the XML -> XSL-FO step so that the complete XML -> PDF transformation is done in with a single user action (in the same transformation scenario).

Regards,
Sorin

Hi and thanks for the reply, but I am new to this and a little lost with the instructions, I have my working XML to PDF working with XEP, so to add registration marks I need a external tool, is this added to the XEP.xml file? and then on my XSL file?

Sorry if I am getting this wrong, and thanks for any help.

Hello,

If you have the scenario already set for transformation from XML to PDF using XEP then you just need to modify the XSLT stylesheet which generates the XSL-FO file so that the XSL-FO file contains your processing instructions (xep-pdf-crop-offset, xep-pdf-crop-mark-width, etc) specific for XEP.

Regards,
Sorin

Hi, and thanks again,

I use this at the top of my .fo page:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xep-pdf-crop-offset 10mm?>
<?xep-pdf-crop-mark-width 0.2mm?>
<?xep-pdf-bleed 2mm?>
<?xep-pdf-bleed-mark-width 0.2mm?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:rx="http://www.renderx.com/XSL/Extensions" xml:lang="en">

My PDF looks fine, but no crop marks, and acrobat 7 has an error:

An unrecognized token 'Page' was found

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Hello,

I added your XEP processing instructions to the XSL-FO file corresponding to a small sample Docbook XML file and the crop marks were added to the PDF result generated by XEP. Also I got no error when Acrobar Reader opened it. You can check to see if adding the processing instructions to the XSL-FO file generated for [oXygen-install-folder]/samples/docbook/sample.xml produces the desired effects in the PDF result. If the result is OK then I think XEP has a problem when processing your file and the XEP team can provide more help.

Regards,
Sorin

Hi Again,

Well I put XEP on my PC and it all worked just fine, no problems with errors and crop and bleed marks were there, so there may be a problem with XEP on OSX 10.4.7?

Not sure who to tell?

Right found out what it was if its of help to anyone in the future, it was me being stupid, I had this in my XEP.xml file

<option name="ENABLE_ACCESSIBILITY" value="True"/>

for web only PDFs

Again thanks Sorin for all your help!!