<div>I tested this but it does not work and does not solve anything.</div>
<div>The crop marks still intersect and touch each other instead of being 2mm apart (similar to setting the bleed to 2mm) and the area around is not controlled from the region-body, which means that if you have an image that spans across the whole page, you have to cut off 2mm on the left and 2mm on the right and add them to the region-start and region-end... but you'd need to know exactly how much padding-top you're going to put so as to align them to the rest of the image in region-body.</div>
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<div>I have pasted a test file at <a href="http://www.pastebin.ca/1263357">http://www.pastebin.ca/1263357</a></div>
<div>If your XEP is saved at the default C:\Program Files\RenderX\XEP\ then it should not need any modification for testing.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/20 Alexei Gagarinov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agagarinov@renderx.com">agagarinov@renderx.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Mark,
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">The purpose of the bleed is that so that when you have an image or a color that needs to go to the very edge of the page, with a bleed you can make the crop marks further in so that you can be sure that when the printers do the cutting, the image/color goes to the very edge, because if they cut a bit less otherwise there will be a white edge on the paper.<br>
So is there no automatic way to do this with RenderX? Will I need to do it manually using <fo:table>?<br></blockquote><br></div>You may do the following trick:<br>1. Define a page size that a slightly bigger than the real content.<br>
(<fo:simple-page-master page-height="297mm+<bleed>" page-width="210mm+<bleed>" master-name="main">)<br>where <bleed> is the size of a desired bleed area.<br>2. Set margins on fo:region equals to <existing margins>+<bleed><br>
3. Define all other regions (start, end, before, after), if don't have them. Extent of each "auxiliary" region is the <existing extent> (if the region did exist)+<bleed>.<br>4. Use any background color/content with the background color on a such "bleed" area of regions.<br>
5. Don't set 'bleed' using PI. Set 'crop' as you did.<br><br>Robert,<br>I think the same trick is also suitable for you (if you don't use other region's overriding techniques).<br><br>Regrads,<br>
Alexey.
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