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JonnyDL
Inspiring
June 6, 2021
Question

Place PDF without Crops

  • June 6, 2021
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On my (original pre covid) work station I was able to crop a PDF in acrobat, and then place it into the Indesign Page just as I had cropped it. I have been re stationed to a new mac, and now when I crop a PDF, and place it into an Indesign page the PDF keeps its original size (not cropped)

Is there a setting/Preference in Indesign (or acrobat) that I need to change to keep the cropping I did in acrobat?

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Eugene TysonCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 7, 2021

Crop in Acrobat only hides the crop marks out of view - the crops are still there, just hidden kind of. 

https://creativepro.com/how-to-permanently-delete-cropped-data-a-pdf/

 

That - or as suggested use the Show Import Options. 

There's a great script that I wrote about here - it allows you to Show Options on an already placed file.

https://creativepro.com/script-show-options-files/

 

The script is quite simple - copy this to a text file - and save it as something like showoptions.jsx

var g; (g=app.selection[0].graphics[0]).  
    place(g.itemLink.filePath, true);
Diane Burns
Diane Burns
Inspiring
June 6, 2021

If you check on "Show Import Options" in the Place dialog (or simply hold down the Shift key while clicking on the Place button), there will be a dialog that displays options for cropping. This is a "sticky" setting, so perhaps it was already changed on your old workstation. 

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