Crop pages

The Crop Pages dialog box is where you can adjust the visible page area. This can help you create consistency within a PDF composed of pages of different sizes.

Note: Cropping does not reduce file size because information is merely hidden, not discarded.

Crop empty areas around page content

1. Choose Document > Crop Pages.
2. Under Margin Controls, select Remove White Margins.

Crop one or more pages

1. Choose Document > Crop Pages.
2. In the pop-up menu in the upper left corner, leave CropBox selected, and then adjust values for the Margin Controls: Top, Bottom, Left, and Right.

   A black rectangle in the thumbnail page display shows the adjusted boundaries of the cropped page.

3. (Optional) One by one, select ArtBox, TrimBox, and BleedBox in the pop-up menu, and adjust the Margin Control values each time. The adjusted boundaries appear as rectangles in the thumbnail page display: red, green, and blue, respectively.
4. Select other options under Change Page Size, as appropriate for your PDF.
5. Under Page Range, in the lower right area of the dialog box, do any of the following:

   • To crop all pages in the PDF, select All.

   • To crop only one page or a range of pages, select From, and enter page numbers in the From and To options.

   • To crop only every other page, choose an either Odd Pages Only or Even Pages Only on the Apply To menu. Otherwise, leave Even And Odd Pages selected.

     Note: If you select a range of pages to be cropped, the odd- or even-pages setting applies only within that range. Otherwise, it applies to all pages in the document.