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Participant
June 17, 2021
Question

Cutting the media box of a file

  • June 17, 2021
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Hello,

 

I am trying to submit a PDF to Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) for a book. I scanned illustrations into a PDF and cropped the excess white space because the illustrations were smaller than any standard page size for scanning.

 

When I submit KDP is telling me that while my page dimensions are correct, there is another attribute they refer to as the "media box of the file" and have told me that is sized larger and causes my upload to be rendered at that larger size.

 

My question:

How do I shrink the "media box of the file" to match my cropped page dimensions? As I don't see anything other than the cropping I have already done.

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Legend
June 18, 2021

Hello,

 

what you can do is to create a prefilght profile with a "Custom fixups" to set the MediaBox to the TrimBox.

 

Regards,

Mike

Participant
December 15, 2022

Thank you, Mike! This was exactly the fix I needed!!