Crop marks in illustrator?

[Rasper]

I've made a design in photoshop but it needs some crop marks.
Now it's not as simple because the end result has to be a JPEG, so the crop marks have to be exported to the JPEG.

I know I can add crop marks in Illustrator, but they only show up on paper when I print with Illustrator, not when I save as a JPEG.

Can anyone help me?

[DDD]

Make your crop marks by hand, not the crop mark function. Actually if you use the effects panel to make the crop marks, those are editable paths and can be seen in export if you turn on that propert for the layer I believe.

OOoops....it the filter panel. Filter>>Create>>Crop Marks...the other way the are not editable. but then this way you can release either. So its a trade off.

[Rasper]

Thanks.

I noticed that these crop mark paths really aren't that handy. They're just lines. You can't specify to have 2mm bleed for example.

I found a little trick, although it isn't ideal. I can print my PSD to a PDF (highest quality) WITH the crop marks and bleed I specify in the print dialog box. After that I open the resulting PDF in Photoshop again and save it as a JPG. There will probably be some quality loss, but it's better than estimating where the crop marks have to be.

[.soulty]

well generally when i'm working in illustrator i set my document size to the actual (cropped size) of the object, and so i create rules for my bleed outside the document borders, and if i need crop marks all i would have to do is to create a shape the full size of the document size and place it in the document borders then make that a crop marks via edit/cropmarks command.

if you save for web after doing that you will notice that the image will only save out whatever the area you have added the crop marks to, so in order to include the crop mark just create a hidden white (or whatever colour is bleeding) in the background to fill the area you want to show in the jpg. Basically the background in illustrator is transparent so you just need to add a elements in the background to have illustrator include that object in the save export.

might be way off track here on what you want, lol.

[jimhere]

I make 3 boxes filled and stroked with "none" for bleed, trim, and live and have ai make the marks from them.

[Mitch smith]

How do i adust my crop marks in Illustrator CS4. In CS3 i could select the crop marks i added to a document. Anyone know how to help? Cheers