A preset and the sheet is ready
Business cards, postcards, flyers, labels: pick a format and Crocini instantly works out how many pieces fit. Save your own presets and recall them with one click.
Mac app
The sheet, ready for the cut
Crocini arranges business cards, flyers and posters on the print sheet, adds bleed and crop marks and hands you a PDF ready for the print shop, the guillotine or the plotter; double-sided too.
Three steps, one sheet ready
Drop your artwork
A PNG, a JPEG or a PDF: Crocini repeats it over the whole sheet and reads its real size.
Set up the sheet
Pick a preset or type your sizes: sheet, item, bleed, spacing, crop marks.
Export the PDF
A vector PDF with the crop marks right where they belong, ready to print.
Try the maths
Change the sizes and see how many pieces fit on the sheet. It is the same calculation as the app: if turning the items fits more, it rotates them for you.
Sheet
Item
Bleed
10 mm margin, no spacing between items. In the app you can change everything.
10pieces per sheet2 × 5
What it does
Ready-made presets
Nine setups (business cards, postcards, flyers, posters) plus your own saved presets.
Bleed, your way
Use the bleed already in the file, add it with a flat colour or by enlarging the artwork.
Custom crop marks
Thickness, length, colour and distance from the trim: you decide how they look.
Crop marks between items too
With a gap between the pieces, crop marks also appear in the gutters, not only on the edge of the sheet.
Double-sided
Load front and back and get a two-page PDF, with the back already mirrored for double-sided printing and an option to fine-tune its alignment to the millimetre.
Cut file for the plotter
A second PDF with the cut line (CutContour spot colour) and registration marks: for Summa, Roland, Graphtec (iMark too) and most cutting plotters.
Your own cut shape
Load an SVG and the die follows that shape: cards with special corners, round or contoured labels.
Sequential numbering
For memberships and passes: start from any number, pick font, position and format, and produce several sheets in a row.
Everything in millimetres
A4, A3, SRA3, Super B/A3, Letter or your own sheet; free item size; margins and spacing to a tenth of a millimetre.
Zoom like design editors
Wheel, pinch, lens and hand; space bar to pan. Check every detail of the cut.
Automatic rotation
If turning the items fits more on the sheet, Crocini rotates them for you.
Updates itself
It checks for news at launch and updates with one click, no manual re-download.
Inside the app
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Scroll, and watch the sheet change
Every feature, shown on the sheet: the page moves with you.
100%
Bleed, your way
Already in the file? Use it. Otherwise add it with a flat colour or by enlarging the artwork: full-bleed printing without white edges.
Custom crop marks
Thickness, length, colour and distance from the trim. They sit on the edge of the grid, ready for the guillotine.
Zoom like design editors
Wheel, pinch, lens and hand; space bar to pan. Check every detail of the cut before printing.
It turns the pieces for you
If turning the items fits more on the sheet, Crocini rotates them for you: from 3 to 5 bookmarks, without touching a thing.
Crop marks between items too
With a gap between the pieces, crop marks also appear in the gutters: cut every piece precisely, not only along the edge of the sheet.
Sequential numbering
For memberships and passes: start from any number, pick font, position and format, and produce several sheets in a row.
Cut file for the plotter
A second PDF with the cut line, even with your own shape from an SVG, and registration marks in the corners.
Double-sided
Load the back and the PDF has two pages: the back is already mirrored, and you can align it to the millimetre if your printer shifts.
Frequently asked questions
Which Macs does it run on?
Any Mac running macOS 13 Ventura or later, both Apple Silicon and Intel.
Which files can I lay out?
PNG, JPEG, TIFF, HEIC, GIF, WebP and PDF. From PDFs and from images that carry DPI, Crocini reads the real size and can set the item accordingly.
How do I cut with the crop marks?
The marks sit on the edge of the grid, outside the bleed (and between the items too, when there is a gap): line up the guillotine or the knife with the opposite marks and cut from one side of the sheet to the other.
How does double-sided work?
Turn on “Double-sided”, load the back artwork and export: the PDF has two pages and the second one is mirrored, so printing double-sided on the long edge the backs line up with the fronts.
Can I cut with a plotter?
Yes: turn on “Also export the cut file”. The print PDF gets four registration marks in the corners and a second PDF holds the cut line (CutContour spot colour) with the same marks in the same position. The format is generic: some plotters want their own marks, so do a test sheet first. For Graphtec with iMark there is a profile that exports only the cut line, on its own layer, and leaves the marks to iMark.
Can I number the items?
Yes: in the “Numbering” card pick the starting number, the step, digits with leading zeros, text before and after, the font, position and rotation. With several sheets the numbers carry on from one sheet to the next in the same PDF.
Why does macOS say the app is not verified?
Crocini is not notarised by Apple yet. On first launch right-click the app and choose Open; or use the command in the Download section below. You only need to do it once.
Do my files stay on my Mac?
Yes. Crocini works entirely locally. The only connection is the update check, which asks GitHub for the latest release.
Can I save my setups?
Yes: once sheet, item, bleed and crop marks are set you can save everything as a preset and recall it with one click.
Download Crocini
The download is a zip file: open it and drag Crocini into your Applications folder.
On first launch
- Open the zip and drag Crocini into Applications.
- Right-click Crocini and choose Open (macOS asks for confirmation just once).
- Or from Terminal, a single command:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Crocini.app"
After the first launch there is nothing more to do: Crocini checks for updates and installs them with one click.