Cropped images export with white edge

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
March 7, 2025
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So I often have to cover up a paragraph of text of a flattened PDF and add new text for my job. When I try to use the eye dropper tool and cover it with a rectangle, it doesn't come out the exact same color. So my work around is usually to duplicate the background image, and crop it just to the size I need to cover up the old text to ensure the color comes out the same. most of the time this works, but once in a while, the exported PDF shows a white edge around where I cropped, even though its not visible in InDesign. Any suggestions?

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Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @John29030141ocy9,

I hope Dave’s suggestion helped fix the issue. Are you still seeing the white edges in the exported PDF, or did adjusting the Acrobat settings do the trick? If you found another solution on your own, feel free to share it here so others can benefit too! Looking forward to your update.

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Abhishek

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

Viewing the PDF in Acrobat, see if the white edges when you turn off these preferences:

If they go away, it's a screen artificat and shouldn't be a problem on final output.

Also, in the Acrobat Print Production tools, use Output Preview to inspect the background to see if it is a pixel (raster) image or vector. Raster images will have a pixel size; vector images won't. You can also check the color values between your rectangle and the background.

I suspect a color management issue.

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

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