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Trim: profile or marker

Trim says what the sticker is cut to: the whole profile, or just the marker and its quiet zone.

The rule

  • Profile (the default): the sticker is the profile's shape, its holes cut out, white wherever there is no black.
  • Marker: the sticker is the marker and its quiet zone, a rectangle, whatever the profile was.
  • There is no “trim to rectangle”: draw a rectangle profile and trim to Profile.
  • A label outside the marker does not survive Trim: Marker. The Studio says so: “the label is outside a marker-trimmed sticker: the sticker and its svg carry the marker only”

On a disc

A Ø90 mm disc with three Ø10 holes. Trimmed to Profile, the sticker is the disc. Trimmed to Marker, it is a 41.3 mm square: the 31 mm marker and its 1-cell quiet zone.

Trim: Profile. The disc, holes and all.
Trim: Marker. Just the marker.

Why

“there is no longer trim to rectangle. If you want trim to rectangle then just make your profile a rectangle and trim to profile!”

Zach, 2026-10-20

In the code: web_api.trim_of and cut_local (web_api.py); the contract's Trim.