How to Add Trim Marks in Illustrator

It is easy to put trim and crop marks on your Adobe Illustrator document.

Illustrator is a graphic vector design tool developed by the Adobe corporation. Adobe Illustrator will allow you to create desktop documents for publishing, printing and web design. This software will allow the user to scale, stretch, twist, create and print images. Preparing documents for professional printing might require trim or crop marks to guide the correct sizing and cutting of a document. The "crop and trim" tool can be directly accessed from Adobe Illustrator in the main file menu.

Instructions

1. Open a new document in Adobe illustrator by clicking on the file menu bar and selecting "New Document."

2. Set the size of the output of your document by entering the width and height in the new document window. Once you enter the dimensions, click on the "OK" button.

3. Open the document or image that you need to apply the trim marks to.

4. Click on the "Object" option from the menu bar at the top of Adobe Illustrator. Select the "Crop Area" and choose the "Make" option. Illustrator will then put trim marks around your document.

5. Visually verify that the trim markets are set correctly, and then print or save your document.

References

• Cardeo: How to get perfect crop marks in Illustrator