Can ID auto-add crop marks?

This is something I have always done manually and occured to me that maybe there is some way of it doing this automatically.  I know about the check box to automatically put crop marks on the 4 corners of the entire layout.  Is there a way to also put crop marks in between the corners?  Like if I was running multiple up of something that are equally spaced (lets say business cards) on an 8.5x11, can it put crop marks showing the cut between each card and not just on the corners of the entire layout?  It would just save a lot of time if it had this ability.  If not, Im definitely suggested it in a future version

Check the scripts panel. There's a script there that will do just that.
Bob

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  • Crop Marks – is this how they work?

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  • Crop marks nightmare

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    >
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