I have a solution — it's the some solution mentioned already. (Preflight fixup to remove items outside Trim.) I found this page because I'm having a unique (related) problem. This solution works flawlessly on a Mac. It's corrupting the other objects on the page in Windows, however. Assuming you're working in a prepress environment, and you're exporting PDFs out of InDesign with Bleed and Crop and Registration marks: The stock fixup, "Remove page objects which are completely outside of page area," does not work, as it is set to remove objects outside the Media box. (If your PDF has a Media box that is defined as the Trim box or that is indeed your page bounds, then this fixup may work for you.) You need to create a new one. You can duplicate it, and click on Edit and change "Completely outside:" from Media box to Trim box. And yes, you can also create a fixup to automatically set the Crop (or Media) box to the Trim box. You can even make one that combines these fixups. I have, and as I said, it works without issue — on a Mac. I've distributed it to coworkers who are using the same version of Acrobat (X/10) on Windows, and it does what it's supposed to, only something gets corrupted. It's like the first 4 or 5 lines have the leading set to 0, and they all munge up together on one line. Removing just objects outside Bleed doesn't create this issue. But, as the Bleed sometimes contains sensitive info (slugs), I want to remove these. Has anyone else seen this, and can anyone offer any suggestions?
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