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This is a Typst package to add cut, bleed, and registration marks to documents.

It’s likely that some future version of Typst will obsolete this package. Until that time, it’s nice to have a way to achieve this functionality with the current version.

Markly Demo

…can be generated with:

#import "@preview/markly:0.2.0"

#let markly-context = markly.setup(
  stock-width:4in,
  stock-height:3in,

  content-width: 3in,
  content-height:2in,
)

#show: markly.page-setup.with(markly-context)

// Here the local title template uses markly's to-bleed
#let title(body, inset-y:12pt) = {
  markly.to-bleed(text(white, size:2.5em, body), markly-context)
}

#title[Bannar]

- Content

For a more detailed example, see main.typ and main.pdf.

Since this is a bit difficult to do there are some limitations to using this package. Here are a few examples:

  • inside/outside margins don’t work on pages
  • The background field of the page can’t be used unless there is a wrapper function so that marks is called also.

Initialize a new project from this template:

cd
typst init @preview/markly:0.2.0
cd markly
typst compile main.typ

Setup

Use setup to create a “context” that other markly methods need. This is just a dictionary with values it so we don’t repeat values.

The stock width and height is your actual paper size.

Parameter Default Value
stock-width 8.5in
stock-height 11in

The content width and height will be the size of the paper after cutting along the cut marks (black).

Parameter Default Value
content-width 6in
content-height 4in

The margin width and height are the amounts between the edge of the cut line and the start of the content. NOTE: total width consumed by margins equals 2 * margin-width since it’s used on both sides of the content. Same for height.

Parameter Default Value
margin-width 6in
margin-height 4in

Finally, the bleed value is the distance between the cut line and bleed line, or the over-print amount that can occur because we have extra paper past the cut line.

Parameter Default Value
bleed 9pt 
#let markly-context = markly.setup(
  // stock-width:8.5in,
  // stock-height:11in,

  content-width:7in,
  content-height:5in,

  // bleed:9pt,

  // margin-width:.2in,
  // margin-height:.2in
)

// Configure the page to draw marks
#show: markly.page-setup.with(markly-context)

content...

Print to Bleed Templates

Use to-bleed, to-bleed-left, or to-bleed-right to paint a background to the bleed marks.

Use img-to-bleed to stretch an image horizontally and vertically to the bleed marks. The position of the “cursor” is not updated (like in the case of a background image) since it uses the place function.

Cetz is used to draw the marks on the page’s background.