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April 30, 2019
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Can't crop

  • April 30, 2019
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I tried cropping a page in Acrobat and it says "Page Size May not be reduced." Well, that's the entire point of cropping. What gives? Why is this so difficult?

Mac S 10.14

Acrobat 2018 and 2019.

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Abambo
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April 30, 2019

You can crop:

But that does not take away the content:

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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April 30, 2019

That function didn't work for me. I needed to use the "Change Page Size" area, because I didn't want to have to do the math to figure out exactly how much I needed to crop on all four sides. This is such a basic function. It shouldn't be this hard for the end user. I've been using Acrobat for 20 years. My solution was NOT using Acrobat for this task.

Bernd Alheit
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April 30, 2019

Change page size will only increase the page size.

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April 30, 2019

Apparently, this has been a problem for at least seven years. Crop Pages error - Page size may not be reduced

I just ended up exporting a new PDF without crops.

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