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Cropping marks are important for print versions of documents. In LaTeX, this can be done with various options of document classes. However, sometimes the packages one uses do not fit together – especially in cases when only some parts of a package are interesting/ needed and other parts of other packages.

The following preamble describes the conjoint use of ‘memoir’ document class and the packages ‘geometry’ and ‘crop’:

\DisemulatePackage{crop} %to allow package 'crop'
                         %instead of emulation by 'memoir'
\setstocksize{297mm}{210mm} %a4 paper as base -> redundant
\settrimmedsize{210mm}{148mm}{*} %use only a5paper area
                         % -> redundant
\usepackage[driver=none]{geometry} %to allow usage of 'crop'
\geometry{paper=a4paper,layout=a5paper,centering,
          textwidth=100mm, textheight=147mm} %text area
\usepackage[cam,a4,center]{crop} %load package 'crop'

In the text, just use the following LaTeX command:

\crop[cam]

to get plain cropping marks. Other options are available and can be get from the respective manuals.

crop marks with LaTeX