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Last updated on
Jul 16, 2024
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Also applies to Adobe Acrobat 2017, Adobe Acrobat 2020
- Acrobat User Guide
- Introduction to Acrobat
- Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Opening and viewing PDFs
- Working with online storage accounts
- Acrobat and macOS
- Acrobat notifications
- Grids, guides, and measurements in PDFs
- Asian, Cyrillic, and right-to-left text in PDFs
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- Creating PDFs
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- Edit text in PDFs
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- Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
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- Enhance document photos captured using a mobile camera
- Optimizing PDFs
- PDF properties and metadata
- Links and attachments in PDFs
- PDF layers
- Page thumbnails and bookmarks in PDFs
- PDFs converted to web pages
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- PDF articles
- Geospatial PDFs
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- Scan and OCR
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- Create a form from scratch in Acrobat
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- About forms tracker
- PDF forms help
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- Combining files
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- Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
- Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
- Crop PDF pages
- Add watermarks to PDFs
- Add backgrounds to PDFs
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- Overview of PDF Portfolios
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- Security
- Enhanced security setting for PDFs
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- Securing PDFs with Adobe Experience Manager
- Protected View feature for PDFs
- Overview of security in Acrobat and PDFs
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- Allow or block links in PDFs
- Electronic signatures
- Sign PDF documents
- Capture your signature on mobile and use it everywhere
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- Commenting on 3D designs in PDFs
- Playing video, audio, and multimedia formats in PDFs
- Add comments to videos
- Print production tools (Acrobat Pro)
- Preflight (Acrobat Pro)
- PDF/X-, PDF/A-, and PDF/E-compliant files
- Preflight profiles
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- Correcting problem areas with the Preflight tool
- Automating document analysis with droplets or preflight actions
- Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool
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- Preflight libraries
- Preflight variables
- Color management
You can adjust the visible area in a PDF using the Crop Pages tool and the Set Page Boxes dialog box. Cropping pages can help you create consistency within a PDF composed of pages of different sizes.
Note:
Cropping does not reduce file size since the cropped data is only hidden and not discarded.
Try it in the app
Crop PDF pages and trim page margins in a few simple steps.
To crop a page:
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From the top tools bar, select Edit. Alternatively, select the All tools menu > Edit a PDF.
It displays the Edit toolset in the left panel.
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From the Edit tools menu, select Crop page
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Drag a rectangle on the section that you want to crop. If necessary, drag the corner handles of the cropping rectangle until the page is the size you want.
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Double-click inside the cropping rectangle.
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In the Set Page Boxes dialog that opens, modify the following settings as desired.
- Show All Boxes (Acrobat Pro) - Shows the black, red, green, and blue rectangles indicating the CropBox, ArtBox, TrimBox, and BleedBox on the preview. When two (or more) margins coincide, only a colored line appears.
- Margin Controls for:
- CropBox - Defines the boundary for the contents of a page when it’s displayed or printed.
- ArtBox (Acrobat Pro) - Defines the meaningful content of the page, including white space.
- TrimBox (Acrobat Pro) - Defines the finished dimensions of the page after trimming.
- BleedBox (Acrobat Pro) - Defines the clipping path when the page is printed professionally to allow for paper trimming and folding. Printing marks may fall outside the bleed area.
- Constrain Proportions - Locks the proportions of the crop so that all margins are at the same distance.
- Remove White Margins - Crops the page to the artwork boundary. This option is useful for trimming the edges of presentation slides saved as PDFs.
- Set To Zero - Restores the crop margins to zero.
- Revert To Selection - Reverts to the crop margin selected with the Crop Page tool.
To apply these settings to more pages, set the page range or select All under Page Range.
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Select OK.
To remove white margins:
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From the All tools menu, select Use Print Production.
It displays the Print Production toolset in the left panel.
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From the left panel, select Set Page Boxes.
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In the Set Page Boxes dialog that opens, under Margin Controls, select Remove White Margins.
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To remove white margins from more pages, set the page range or select All under Page Range.
To undo cropping:
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From the All tools menu, select Use Print Production.
It displays the Print Production toolset in the left panel.
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From the left panel, select Set Page Boxes.
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In the Set Page Boxes dialog that opens, under Margin Controls, select Set to Zero.
Cropping a PDF does not reduce file size because information is merely hidden, not discarded. By resetting the page size, you can restore the page and its content to its original condition.