Im quite new to this, might be a very simple answer to my question. I want to cut out stuff on printed papers and labels. I print the .pdf, place the paper sheet with corner at origo, import .pdf in lightburn and hoped I could match the .pdf page borders with origo in lightburn. However, when I import .pdf there is no page borders, just individual images. Is there a way to display the .pdf page borders (for instance A4 format)?
There isn’t a way to have LightBurn show the page bounds, however, if you know the page size, you can create a rectangle of that size yourself.
When importing any file, if you hold the Shift key, LightBurn will place the origin of the imported file at the origin of your machine, so the position is accurate. If you placed an A4 sized rectangle with one corner at your machine origin, then import the PDF while holding the Shift key, it will place it correctly. If the PDF is multi-page, you have to hold the Shift key when you click the ‘Ok’ button on the “which page?” prompt.
Thanks! Holding shift solved the problem, however it seems like the page origo was the bottom left corner, which put the whole page on the negative y-axis. Couldnt find a way to move objects by an exact amount, so I did some calculations and moved it manually, worked great. As a followup; can the page origo be altered? And is there a way to move several objects a set distance (297 mm on 7-axis in this case)?
Select your shapes, then append -297 or +297 to the YPos box.
https://lightburnsoftware.github.io/NewDocs/NumericEdits.html#equation-support
In your case, you could also just ‘Select all’ then click ‘Move to lower-left’:
Thanks for these quick replies, you solved all my problems 
thanks!
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