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November 26, 2020
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Deleting invisible parts

  • November 26, 2020
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Hi! I want to delete invisible (cropped and overlapped) parts of a .pdf file I created using Inkscape. I tried almost everything (flatten, re-print, optimize...) unsuccesfully. The only solution I found is using the option Remove Hidden Data, but my file looses vectors and the final quality is quite poor. 
What I want is to obtain a final .pdf file with only the objects that are "visible", because when oppening it again on Inkscape, Gimp or similar, everyone can use the tool Release Cropped objects and 'see' images that should not be there.
I would appreciate some help on this! 
Thank you in advance!

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Bernd Alheit
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Community Expert
November 27, 2020

With Acrobat Pro you can redact the objects outside the crop area with the Redaction Tool.

Participant
November 27, 2020

Hello and thank you for the reply! 
Yes, with the sterilize option I solve partially my problem: unnecessary data disappears, but in in return I get a .pdf that has lost the vector properties and my images get blurry. (somehow this option also compress the files).