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Use the Crop tool. Tools > Pages > Crop. Drag out the crop area, then double-click to bring up the Crop dialog.

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Asher@
Participating Frequently
September 4, 2020

Thanks for this post, I finally find out how to crop a PDF in Adobe...That's pretty easy.

clemensR
clemensR
Participant
December 7, 2019

Thank you, it works perfectly. I really have to get familiar with the new interface!

colin_pangolin
colin_pangolin
Participant
December 2, 2014

Using Adobe Acrobat 9,

1. Create a temporary folder, place the pdf to be cropped there

2. Crop the file using Adobe Acrobat

3. Open the Adobe cropped pdf file

4. Select File -> Export -> Image -> PNG

5. Click "Save"

6. Go into the temporary folder, select all the PNG files, right click select "Combine supported files in Acrobat"

7. Click "Combine files"

8. Save the newly combined file.  This file has is permanently cropped and is of the same quality as the original

    Bernd Alheit
    Community Expert
    Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 2, 2014

    This way you will lost all bookmarks, links, and so on

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    maximus68
    Participant
    December 9, 2014
    Bernd Alheit

    You're absolutely right. This is not a solution.

    I invite you to visit this website:

    http://www.proficiografik.com/2009/11/17/acrobat-9-when-the-crop-tool-is-not-cropping-and-how-to-fix-it.html

    Another thing:

    To fine-fixing crop window we must enter values in the edit boxes Top Bottom Left Right.

    It would be much easier to operate with crop window and drag it in different positions as other programs allow this.

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    adwul62
    Inspiring
    April 13, 2013

    Up front: I am a newbie and am (still) using XI Pro as a trial. That said, I do feel that matters around margins, papersize, in all the different window panels, they are a bit confusing to me. Maybe the number of questions asked on Internet regarding margins, will make Adobe to address this and make this a little bit more userfriendly.

    Example: I have a document with size of 178,2 x 97,4mm (File->Print->tag Custom Scale 100&).

    By default, Acrobat selects "Auto portrait/landscape" (under Orientation) and displays the print as Landscape.

    If I change this to Portrait, the preview shows the text in the utmost left top corner, well into the 'grey borders'...?

    Is that correct? I can't adjust the margins here.

    Personally, I would like to have two print-profiles:

    1. where nothing is being shrinked as long as it fits on a document with 'my margings'

    (e.g. left 15mm width required to punch holes, right 10mm, top and bottom 10mm)

    2. where documents may be shrinked with margins set a 0mm all around

    Donot know how to 'set this as default'.

    Secondly, File->Print->Select Printer:Adobe PDF ->Click on Proporties button, right of Adobe PDF,

    then click on "Edit" right of Default Settings - under default page size it says:

    Papersize is set to 215,9 x 279,4

    ISO Standard is 210 × 297

    i.e. papersize is 5.9mm wider x 17.6mm higher that the ISO size.

    Anyway, does anybody know how to create these custom print profiles ?

    Windows 7 x64

    Acrobat Pro XI

    Printer: HP 3800dn

    Thanks

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    Test Screen Name
    Legend
    April 13, 2013

    adwul62, I don't think you are talking about the same thing as everyone else in this thread. This is about the crop tool in Acrobat.

    You are asking something about printing. Not sure though, are you talking about PRINTING TO PDF (with the Adobe PDF printer, which you mention)? Or are you talking about Printing FROM PRINT (print in Acrobat, to your own printer, which you also mention)? Perhaps we can provide clarity. Acrobat has really very little indeed to do with margins (it isn't Word and is less like Word than many people realise), and by focussing on margins you may be going down the wrong path for understanding.

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    adwul62
    Inspiring
    April 13, 2013

    Hello to you,

    Sorry, I am not sure how I got here, but likely I used F1 from within Acrobat and did a search on "set margins in acrobat" and more or less took the first hit

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    Adobe Acrobat XI * Crop PDF pages

    Choose Tools > Print Production > Set Page Boxes. Under Margin Controls,

    select Remove White Margins. To remove ...

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    Anyway, what I want is, for both options, i.e. either print a PDF to printer, or print to PDF (and creating a PDF doc thát way), I'd like to have:

    1)  with custom margin, e.g. left 15mm

    2) without margins, i.e. set to '0'

    3) set either one of them as default.

    I've tried to figure this out thru preferences, think there is nothing and then went on to search via Google and F1 help.

    Am afraid I donot know how to sort this out.

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    vickijking
    Participant
    November 18, 2012

    I just signed up for a trial of Adobe Acrobat XI prior to purchasing it. I think I love this product. It was so easy to scan to a pdf file. My question is that the paper size of the document I scanned is 8 1/2 by 11 and the scan size appears to be 8 1/2 by 14. How do I change the pages to the proper size and eliminate the large bottom margin?

    Bernd Alheit
    Community Expert
    Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 18, 2012

    You can crop the pages.

    ecstaticdesign
    ecstaticdesign
    Participating Frequently
    January 25, 2013

    Use C (crop tool) to create a starting crop area. Double-click in crop area opens dialog box. Refine in the dialog box.  I use this all the time.


    Sorry for the misunderstanding, but I'm trying to find the keyboard ONLY shortcut only to open the dialog without using the mouse. The shortcut in previous versions was Ctr+Shift+T.

    For years I had became very acustomed to doing it this way because I didn't need to take my hands off the keyboard to grab my stylus pen and then try to double-click without accidentaly dragging and creating a crop box. From there I could tab through and input the box parameters manually to crop proofs and check the myriad of odd trim, bleed and artwork bounds. It's not a huge deal, but I work in a busy prepress department and I miss the speed and rhythm I developed with the keyboard only shortcut. I'm sure anybody who works with a computer a lot can appreciate how extra clicks and steps can add up over time.

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