Inserting Crop Marks for Publishing

My publisher has asked me to find out whether Aperture software is capable of inserting crop marks before saving the PDF file to send to the publisher.
Many thanks for help on this topic.
W.

It cannot. However you could create a print workflow that does it using Automator.
Use the PDF:Add Watermark action and instead of using a watermark, use an image that has the crop marks. There is probaably third party software that can do this to PDFs *** well.

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