Belongs to
- Category: Add
- Type: Changes
What it does
Inserts a chosen object (a line, a rectangle, an ellipse or a text) and positions it relative to one of the page boxes. This can be useful to add information to be trimmed off later.
Note: If you're inserting text, you can make use of predefined variables, such as
the name of the document, the author, the page number, page count, the page box
dimensions, ...See the example below.
The Fill and Stroke tabs allow you to define the color of the objects you are inserting.
Note: As of PitStop 2017, you can create rectangles with rounded corners
(enable Round corners with radius <value>). This is useful for
customers who want to automatically generate cutter guides or dielines for
labels based on a PDF page box such as the trim box. See also the Action Lists
based on this Action, which make a dieline in an overprinting spot color based
on the trim box.
Example
To add the width and height of the media box to your document, proceed as follows:
- In the attributes for the Add object Action, on the Object and position tab, choose Add text in foreground.
- Click the Variable button.
- Select %Page Box Dimensions%.
- Select the page box of which you want to insert the dimensions, in this example Media Box. The current value is shown.
- Click Insert.
- Select a font and a font size and determine where the text must be inserted in the document, for example in the center of the media box with a particular offset.
- Specify whether or not to take into account page rotation and page scaling factor if applicable.
Below is an example of the dialog that allows you to insert predefined text variables.