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Assigning automatic crop marks

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Assigning automatic crop marks

I have saved my progress as Full bleeds.ai, found inside the 11_printing folder. So called, because we filled in the bleed area on our first two artboards, and therefore everybody is ready to go where the bleeds are concerned. In this exercise I am going to show you how to automatically assign Crop Marks to specific objects inside of your artboards. So here is the idea. These two pieces of cover art, as well as, by the way, this next door neighbor here, the poster art, we'll need to assign crop boundaries to those as well that trace the artboard. Now I can't see my artboards, because I hid them in the last exercise. So I will go up to the View menu and choose Show Artboards or once again press Ctrl+Shift+H, Cmd+Shift+H on the Mac. That brings the artboards back. So I can see them. Those are nonprinting lines by the way; you are not going to print black lines around your artboards. However, you are going to want to have Crop Marks there to identify the boundaries of your trim size…

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