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command-line method to add crop marks to an A3 PDF

I have A3 PDFs which are 2x2 imposed A5 postcards.

I want to add crop marks to the A3 PDFs.

I used Multivalent to create the A3 PDFs, but it doesn't appear to provide an option to add crop marks.

Does anyone have any idea how I should approach this?

I've seen hints that PDFTK can do this, but have not found any details on their website.

Solution

  • If you can produce an A3 PDF of some crop marks, using a graphics program, you can then overlay it using cpdf:

    cpdf -stamp-on cropmarks.pdf input.pdf -o output.pdf