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August 7, 2013
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Can I remove crop marks with Adobe Acrobat Pro XI

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Can I remove crop marks using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI?

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Correct answer Mylenium

Yes. You can use the crop pages feature and then sanitation to remove data outside the cropped region.

Mylenium

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ams11893
ams11893
Participant
June 11, 2018

'View' > 'Show/Hide' > 'Navigation Panes' > 'Content'

This allows me to find and delete just the marks without cropping the document.

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    gerardvdakker
    Participant
    September 19, 2017

    in Adobe Acrobat DC I found the following option, worked like a charm:

    open your pdf

    go to Print Production

    go to Preflight

    select the Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency

    click in the little tool icon (wrench) and then search for the word 'Crop' in the search bar

    select the preset 'Set Cropbox to Trimbox'

    click on the button 'Fix' at the bottom

    happy cropping...

      beverlyf54477030
      beverlyf54477030
      Participant
      April 8, 2018

      Worked perfectly!!! 

      Thank you!!  

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      campy2012
      Participant
      August 18, 2017

      This is what I did ,

      1- go to VIEW - TOOLS, don't select anything from the drop down menu just release and this will open the tools window on the right hand side.

      2- Select PAGES

      3- Select CROP, then over the document manually crop the area you need. This will create a red line around the area.

      4-Double click on the red line

      5- This screen will pop up. You can now refine the crop using the fields. Make SURE that ALL PAGES are selected on the bottom right if you want this crop to apply to the entire document.  Took me a while to figure this out DUH.

      The crops are still there but not visible.

      Mylenium
      MyleniumCorrect answer
      Legend
      August 7, 2013

      Yes. You can use the crop pages feature and then sanitation to remove data outside the cropped region.

      Mylenium

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      JustBob
      Inspiring
      January 17, 2014

      Mylenium, I hate to ask, but in Acrobat XI, where do I find the Crop Pages feature?

      In the right sidebar, under Tools > Pages, I see a Crop command. This seems to allow me to draw a box, but it does not seem very precise.

      Under Print Production, I see a Set Pages Boxes command. I can't figure out how this works. I can choose Trim from a pop-up menu and guides show up where they should, but they just disappear when I click OK. (Also, the margin numnbers in that box get set to zero after doing tha; but, I digress.)

      So, how can I just accurately trim the page to the trim area?

      Thank you!

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      whispering_artist4297
      Participating Frequently
      November 9, 2016

      Yes, that is fine if you know the exact margins; but, what if we do not? .5 inches is not  an even number in the metric system.

      I wish Adobe would address this once and for all and allow us to crop the page to the crop marks without having to know any other measurements.


      If you do not know the exact margins you can use the below javascript in an action.

      You have to create a new action and add the "Execute Javascript" option (you can call it "crop pages" or something). This detects the embedded trim box on each page and sets the crop box to the same dimensions as the trim box (effectively changing the viewport of the PDF.) This should work for pages that have any measurement of crop/trim box (even if the inside bleed/trim is different than the top/bottom/outside.) Tested in Acrobat XI and DC.

      for (var p=0; p<this.numPages; p++) {

      this.setPageBoxes("Crop", p, p, this.getPageBox("Trim", p));

      }

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