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11marini
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11marini
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‎Mar 20, 2019
12:52 PM
I admit that I don't use the Redact functionality almost at all (outside of this testing). My Redact toolbar has only "Mark for Redaction", "Apply", "Properties", "Remove Hidden Information", and "Sanitize Document". I tried the last two, and while the information is removed, the original page size is retained (I can see it from the "Crop Pages" dialog), and the file size balloons. Contrasted with if I export TIFFs and recombine them with Adobe, then the file size gets cut in half. The main thing which doesn't work for me is the file size.
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‎Mar 20, 2019
12:26 PM
That does not work. The canvas is still there, and therefore the filesize remains the same. Already tried with the Sanitize function, as mentioned in my original post.
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‎Mar 20, 2019
11:26 AM
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Seeing as, per Dov Isaacs' response, there is no clean way to do this, the easiest way that I can suggest without a degradation of quality is to crop as needed, export to TIFF, and make a fresh PDF from the TIFFs.
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‎Mar 20, 2019
11:19 AM
Thank you for the prompt and very complete reply. This is yet again another reason why I feel validated to be sceptical of a paid tool with no way of trying it first.... I'll put in a request as you suggested. Thanks again!
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‎Mar 20, 2019
11:18 AM
Unfortunately not. And sometimes the scans have very irregular margins, so pinpointing the exact dimensions at the time of scanning would add a huge amount of time to the scanning process. The scanning/cropping part works as I want it to (a desirable balance of speed vs. accuracy), but I need to remove the unnecessary parts....
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‎Mar 20, 2019
10:17 AM
Thanks for the reply. I am aware of this tool, but I am wary to drop money on something I'm not sure even works. And while I appreciate the desire to make money off of one's own hard work, I find it hard to believe that this isn't built in somewhere, albeit buried deep in the bowels of the program...
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‎Mar 20, 2019
09:40 AM
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So I know this is a semi-popular subject, but I still have yet to find anything which works. So I do a lot of scanning (sheet music) and I process those scans with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (2018). The music is often larger than A4, so I scan it as A3 and crop it. Obviously, the info that has been cropped away is still there, hence why the file size does not change. I would like to discard the invisible information after the crop (and therefore enjoy a smaller file size), but I have yet to be able to figure this out. I have tried a various combination of Preflight tools, I have tried "Remove Hidden Information" (via the Protect menu) and "Sanitize" (via the Redact menu), both of which balloon the file size. I have also tried the Proficiografik Fixup, which doesn't work either. The only options I can see are refrying it (which is obviously a bad idea), or simply exporting it as an image, cropping that, and putting it back together with Acrobat (stupidly work-intensive, albeit very effective and yielding a desirable file size). Can anyone put me out of my misery and help me solve this? Thanks in advance for any help or ideas!
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