Removing printer marks

how do you remove printer marks from your PDF
document?

ChrisMercianLabels wrote:
In case it helps find the solution, the issue can be re-created by:
1) Create a new Illustrator document with 1 artboard (number not important) and add some random shapes to it.
2) Save the document as a PDF and under the Marks and Bleeds section tick the "All Printer's Marks".
3) Create a new Illustrator document (again the number of artboards is not important).
4) Place your previously created PDF in step 2 into your new document.
5) Embed the PDF.
Okay, all is normal up to this point.
6) By either using the Direct Selection Tool and clicking down into the grouped image, delete the printer marks so you are just left with the random shapes created in step 1.
This is where the discrepancy must creep in. The placed PDF with printer's marks comes in as a "clipping group" contained in a rectangle the size of its original artboard + printer's marks. It's possible the printer's marks themselves bring along some nested clipping paths too. How certain are you that you are deleting everything but the "random shapes created in step 1"? If you are not releasing the clipping path(s) and/or un-grouping anything, it's very possible you're leaving frames which have no stroke and no fill.
7) Now try centring the artwork to the artboard and depending on which alignment option you choose the artwork will shift to the right or down.
Do you work with "edges" or "bounding box" visible? When you select the artwork to align, does the bounding box tightly surround the objects, or is it still the size of the original placed PDF?

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