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caroled56089232
January 8, 2026
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Please restore one-click “Set all page boxes to CropBox” feature

  • January 8, 2026
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Hello Adobe Acrobat Product Team,

I’m writing to request the return of the one-click option to set all page boxes (MediaBox, TrimBox, BleedBox, ArtBox) to the CropBox.

In current versions of Acrobat Pro (2025), this functionality appears to have been removed or fragmented, requiring users to manually adjust each box individually. For real-world documents—such as a 60-page book—this turns what used to be a single action into a very time-consuming and error-prone process.

This feature was extremely valuable for:

  • Properly resizing PDFs (not just visually cropping)

  • Preparing documents for print, EPUB conversion, or layout software

  • Ensuring consistent page geometry across multi-page documents

Other tools still provide this capability in one step, and its absence in Acrobat significantly slows down professional workflows.

Please consider restoring a simple option such as:
“Set all page boxes to CropBox”

This would greatly improve efficiency and usability for advanced and production-focused users.

Thank you for considering this feedback.

1 reply

creative explorer
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creative explorerCommunity Expert
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January 8, 2026

@caroled56089232 I guess there are three options you could do:

  1. If you can, 'dsiable the new Acrobat,' so that it can have the old classic interface and tools or
  2. Roll back to the previous version or
  3. Create a new action with the Set Page Command (via Action Wizard)
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Luke Jennings3
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Luke Jennings3Community Expert
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January 8, 2026

In Addition to the good information above, you can create a new Action that uses Preflight fixups to set the page boxes, you can add multiple fixups to your Action so you can set the trim, bleed and media box to the crop box. Changing the art box is not an option using a fixup, I'm not sure if this ever was an option, as I believe Acrobat has non-destructive cropping*, the pdf will appear cropped but someone could always undo the cropping by enlarging the media box.

If you need to permanently remove objects extending beyond the crop box you could place the pdf into InDesign or Illustrator at the cropped size and export a new pdf.

* there is a fixup to remove objects completely outside the trim box.

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