Crop Marks font

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Crop Marks font

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This font was produced to facilitate the production of the label for a CD onto a sheet of A4 size paper with crop marks for cutting the paper. The label being for one-off or small quantities using desktop publishing facilities.

The idea is that using a desktop publishing package this font could be used in a separate layer so as to produce crop marks around the edge of the label.

At 24 point on the Windows platform the crop marks should be precise at one pixel wide.

The font has the crop marks encoded as digits 1, 2, 3 and 4 on a square body.

Various spaces are also encoded.

The space character is a square space.
The h is a half-width space.
The q is a quarter-width space.
The e is an eighth-wiidth space.
The s is a sixteenth-width space.
The t is a thirty-secondth-width space.
The p is also a thirty-secondth-width space, a pixel-width at 24 point in Windows.

The font is available from the following link.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/CROPMARK.TTF

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There is now the Crop Marks Plus font as well.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/CROPPLUS.TTF

This font has the features of the Crop Marks font.

In addition there are also special characters to indicate the side edges of a crop box without actually putting ink on the edge of the crop box. These are encoded as digits 5, 6, 7 and 8 on a square body.

Digits 0 and 9 are encoded as landscape and portrait oriented boxes.

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Post by William »

The Crop Marks Plus font has been updated to version 1.01 by adding five glyphs.

The description of the font now includes the following additional text.

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Temporary inner crop marks are included so that if, say, the content of a custom size desktop publishing document is to be copied onto, say, an A4 size desktop publishing document, then the temporary inner crop marks can be used to facilitate the copying as the ordinary crop marks may not show well against the workspace background. They are encoded as u, i, j, k and m.

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http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/CROPPLUS.TTF

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