Using crop package with XeLaTeX

Question

When using the crop package with XeLaTeX the cropping of the first page doesn’t work. While the following document compiles fine with PDFLaTeX the result with XeLaTeX is this:

As you can see the first page has crop marks but the size of the actual cropped paper. Is there a way to fix this?

% !TeX program = xelatex
\documentclass{scrbook}

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{paperwidth =10cm,paperheight=20cm}

\usepackage[a4,center,cam]{crop}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\lipsum
\end{document}

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Here are some information about my system and versions: I’m running TeX Live 2015 (Intel 64bit; via MacTeX) on Mac OS X 10.10.5. I’m compiling this document with XeTeX 3.14159265-2.6-0.99992 (TeX Live 2015) and an up-to-date distribution, using the following files:

 *File List*
 scrbook.cls    2015/10/03 v3.19a KOMA-Script document class (book)
scrkbase.sty    2015/10/03 v3.19a KOMA-Script package (KOMA-Script-dependent basics and keyval usage)
 scrbase.sty    2015/10/03 v3.19a KOMA-Script package (KOMA-Script-independent basics and keyval usage)
  keyval.sty    2014/10/28 v1.15 key=value parser (DPC)
scrlfile.sty    2015/10/03 v3.19a KOMA-Script package (loading files)
tocbasic.sty    2015/10/03 v3.19a KOMA-Script package (handling toc-files)
scrsize11pt.clo 2015/10/03 v3.19a KOMA-Script font size class option (11pt)
typearea.sty    2015/10/03 v3.19a KOMA-Script package (type area)
geometry.sty    2010/09/12 v5.6 Page Geometry
   ifpdf.sty    2011/01/30 v2.3 Provides the ifpdf switch (HO)
  ifvtex.sty    2010/03/01 v1.5 Detect VTeX and its facilities (HO)
 ifxetex.sty    2010/09/12 v0.6 Provides ifxetex conditional
    crop.sty    2003/05/20 v1.9 crop marks (mf)
   color.sty    2014/10/28 v1.1a Standard LaTeX Color (DPC)
   color.cfg    2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
   xetex.def    2015/09/11 v4.06 LaTeX color/graphics driver for XeTeX (TeX Live/RRM/JK)
infwarerr.sty   2010/04/08 v1.3 Providing info/warning/error messages (HO)
 ltxcmds.sty    2011/11/09 v1.22 LaTeX kernel commands for general use (HO)
graphics.sty    2014/10/28 v1.0p Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
    trig.sty    1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg    2010/04/23 v1.9 graphics configuration of TeX Live
    crop.cfg
  lipsum.sty    2014/07/27 v1.3 150 paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum dummy text
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This is how my crop.cfg looks like (it’s the one shipped with TeX Live. I have made no user-config.

% crop.cfg for xetex - JK - 2007-01-19
% This attempts to persuade crop.sty to work with xetex
% Public domain

\@ifundefined{XeTeXversion}{}{
    %% Force crop.sty to use the "pdftex" driver (i.e., \pdfpagewidth, \pdfpageheight) with XeTeX
    \def\CROP@driver{pdftex}
}

\endinput

%% End of file `crop.cfg'.

I tried to play with the drivers in a new config, these are the results:

In all cases the crop marks are shown.

• none, vtex: all pages in the cropped size
• pdftex: all page in A4 except the first one (see screenshot above)
• dvips: only first page in A4 all others in cropped size

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Using geometry’s showcrop=true is impossible since it breaks TikZ current page node coordinates.

Answer 1

I have the following crop.cfg. Try that.

% crop.cfg for xetex - JK - 2006-06-07
% This attempts to persuade crop.sty to work with xetex

\@ifundefined{XeTeXversion}{}{
    %% Use the "pdftex" driver (i.e., \pdfpagewidth, \pdfpageheight) with XeTeX
    \def\CROP@reqdriver{pdftex}

    %% make crop.sty believe this is valid
    \@ifundefined{pdfoutput}{
      \newcount\pdfoutput \pdfoutput=1
    }{}
}

\endinput
%% End of file `crop.cfg'.

Answer 2

It is a problem with scrbook, with book the example works fine. In the end it boils down to the fact that (newer versions of) scrbook inserts a \special at \begin{document}. One can reproduce the problem with this code:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[paperwidth =10cm,paperheight=20cm]{geometry}
\AtBeginDocument{\special {papersize=\the \paperwidth ,\the \paperheight }}
\usepackage[a4,center,cam]{crop}
\usepackage{lipsum}

%\makeatletter\let\scr@ifdvioutput\@gobble \show\@begindocumenthook

\begin{document}
\lipsum
\lipsum
\end{document}

The code is inserted by scrbook with a \scr@ifdvioutput test, this explains why the problem disappears if one defines \pdfoutput and set it to 1. Imho the problem should be reported to the KOMA author.

Edit

A work around is to add another \special:

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage[paperwidth =10cm,paperheight=20cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[a4,center,cam]{crop}
\AtBeginDocument{\special {papersize=\the \stockwidth ,\the \stockheight }}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\lipsum
\end{document}

Answer 3

In July I posted this problem on the KOMA-Script Forum and was told that the new version of KOMA (3.18 and later) set pagesize=auto as a default. Using pagesize=false reverts to the old behaviour, which works correctly with the crop-package.

Answer 4

try adding

pdftex, % or any other renderer

in the options of the package, e.g.:

\usepackage[pdftex,a4,center,cam]{crop}

It worked for me.