Comments on: Holy Crop! How to REALLY crop a PDF

By: JRB

JRB — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:19:36 +0000

The “Resize Pages Tool” is a free Acrobat plugin that really crop PDF pages:
http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Free_Acrobat_Automation_Tools.cfm

It’s also available as part of the free abracadabratools:
http://abracadabrapdf.net/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=717

By: Tom Usrey

Tom Usrey — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:41:29 +0000

Thank you, Jean-Claude, for this helpful fix.

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This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 96 | InDesignSecrets — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:48:37 +0000

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By: Claudia

Claudia — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:34:54 +0000

Argh!! You’re right; I reopened the PDF in Illustrator, and the rind is still there. Thank you for the correction; I’ll fix the post.

By: Jean-Claude Tremblay

Jean-Claude Tremblay — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:57:05 +0000

Claudia,

That’s a nice tips to ensure the PDF will be interpreted correctly in some older RIP too. But this will not eliminate the content of the file outside the crop area. The objects will still be there but hidden.

I have already talk about this on my blog almost three years ago. That was for Acrobat 9, but it is still true for Acrobat X.

What need to be done is a new Preflight setting with both a fix for the Media box, and ALSO the removal of object outside the crop.

You can read it here: http://bit.ly/pdfcrop