Creating crop marks in pages

Swift Publisher (http://www.belightsoft.com/products/swiftpublisher/overview.php) costs $44.95 and creates very nice crop marks. If Apple create a word processor that can handle fancy typographic stuff such as ligatures it ought to be able to handle crop marks - and proper hyphenation - too.

Pages can't generate crop marks natively (and I know of no other $40 application that does). If you are starting a new project, you can set up a custom template to do this. In Page Setup, set the page size to a custom size larger than the page you need (e.g., a few centimetres larger horizontal and vertical than the final page size). In the new page that appears, set the page guides to mark the border of the document, then set the crop and bleed marks where specified by your printer.

Note that this won't really help if the document already exists, since changing the page size may mess up existing formatting.

There is always the manual method
draw lines on the outline of your page and extend them past the corners. Add a white fill over top which is about 10mm larger than the page. Send to master page.

Cocoabooklet.app also adds crops

One option might be to use PDFClerk to create crop marks in the PDF after you have generated it in Pages.

Ditto on PDFClerk. I paiod 40.90 for it and it does such a nice job.