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Can you add a stroke to outline the page?

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December 2, 2016
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I usually get files that are set at smaller than letter size.

Right now, if I get a pdf file that has a white background, I have to bring it into photoshop and add a stroke to the page to print it with the page boundary.

Can you add a stroke to the page in Acrobat?

add a stroke to page

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Correct answer Barb Binder

That's perfect!

How can I change the color of the rectangle? My Acrobat Pro DC isn't showing the color bucket

Right click the topmost toolbar and select Show Properties Bar:

Barb Binder

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I don't think you want to be doing that in Acrobat because how precise would that be? If it were me, I'd ask those providing PDFs to put the crop marks in as they make the PDFs. It's just checkboxes!

In InDesign

File > Export > PDF (Print)

In Marks and Bleeds, ask them to check Crop Marks

In Photoshop

File > Print

Under Printing marks, enable corner and center crop marks.

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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jackieseowAuthor

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crop marks does not print a visual boundary.

I often get pdfs before a meeting that I am presenting them to. I don't have time to go back to the outside contractors to add a stroke.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

If precision isn't important, you can use the Drawing Markup tools (under Commenting) to add a rectangle:

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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sb116

Community Manager

Hi Jackieseow,

Apologies i may not have understood the question.

Please share the workflow you are following and what you are trying to accomplish and if you are referring to printing a file with the stroked text then, that is not an option in the application.

However, for reading purpose you may try these steps and see if it works:

Go to Edit>Preferences>Accessibility>Check mark the "Replace Document Colors" option>Page Background>Choose the color and save the changes.

Thanks,

Supriya

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jackieseowAuthor

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I'm actually working in Acrobat Pro and this is regarding printing a file.

I'm a art director and I get comps sent to me via pdf. The page sizes are usually set at 6 x 9. Unless the designer placed a black holding rule to the 6 x 9 size in either photoshop or indesign, when they create the pdf, the white or light background has no edge or restraining rule when I print it out on a letter sized page.

So my question was whether you are able to add a stroke to the "page" size in the pdf?

~graffiti

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Are you trying to add crop marks or something like that?

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