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Q&A for printing and cutting cover sleeves QUESTION Why is there a small crossed crop lines in the middle of some of the cd labels and on some of the paper sleeve designs found on the cover pages? ANSWER The crop lines are to make a nice and smooth middle hole with the help of an Compass. Just remember when using a Compass for cutting the cd labels you first need to cut of the outside of the label itself and then cut out the middle hole. DEFINITION Vertical lines used to indicate the center of a 2-page spread for folding or cutting are the center marks. Center marks usually appear at the top and bottom edge of the spread. Center marks are printed with thin lines of about 1/4 to 1/2 inches in length. Because they appear at the point where a spread is folded (or cut) they are not usually noticable in the finished book or newsletter. Also Known As: fold marks QUESTION Why are there crossed lines in the corner points on some places outside the designs? ANSWER With the help of an Utility Knife (Stanleymes) and a Ruler (Liniaal) you can use the lines to your advantage and make perfect cut outs. It's best to have a hard steal background when doing this! DEFINITION Crossed lines placed at the corners of an image or a page to indicate where to trim it are known as crop marks. Crop Marks may be drawn on manually or automatically applied with some desktop publishing software programs. Also Known As: corner marks QUESTION How can i cut out the paper sleeve cover sleeves? ANSWER By using some of the technique showing above it should not be to difficult to do so. I've also made a example on what to cut out and what not. Example (pdf / 38 kb) file Q&A for file formats QUESTION What's a PDF, PSD and EPS file? ANSWERS 1. PDF is a document storage format developed by Adobe. In order to view PDF files on your computer, you will need the free Acrobat Reader software available from Adobe. 2. Adobe Photoshop is probably the premier application for image editing. PSD is the native format for this program. 3. PostScript is a language developed by Adobe to describe the layout of a page or pages (typically printed). Encapsulated PostScript files contain a stream of PostScript data (although some PostScript commands can not be used in EPS files). QUESTION What's a RAR file? ANSWER WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. You may try WinRAR before buy, its trial version is available here.