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Mauro23063009qv9a
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May 15, 2024
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Crop white spaces around PDFs DEFINITELY!

  • May 15, 2024
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I need to crop the white spaces present in some PDF files. I know the "REMOVE WHITE MARGIN" function perfectly, but this function does not remove spaces permanently. That is, if you reopen the file after saving and reopen the cutting window, the original dimensions are still visible. I found an online site that does it permanently, but it's a nuisance to have to upload 20-30 files each time and maybe even tens of MB large, when I have ADOBE ACROBAT PRO and it can't do the same job!

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    Mauro23063009qv9aAuthor
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    May 16, 2024

    With this image you can understand even better what I mean by failure to definitively cut the white margins.

    Amal.
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    Amal.Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 31, 2024

    Hi there

     

    Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

     

    Please go through the help page https://adobe.ly/4e2BmsQ and see if that works.

     

    Let us know how it goes.

     

    ~Amal

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    Mauro23063009qv9aAuthor
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    June 7, 2025

    Hello there, 

     

    so your only worry is that the CropBox starts at 0 from all 4 sides in the Set Page Boxes dialog, right? 

    All the page boxes in the Set Page Boxes dialog are measured from the MediaBox. 

    You should be able to set up a Preflight fixup that would remove white margins by adjusting the MediaBox (instead of the CropBox as the Set Page Boxes dialog does). 

    Please follow these steps in the image below: 

    You can run the fixup on any file via the Preflight tool and it should remove the white margins.

     

    Hope it helps, 

    David 


    Hi David,
thanks for the help with the various steps.
Maybe my version of Acrobat is slightly different but I ended up following your path of which I attach photos.
When I click on "correct" however it asks me to save the file and does not do anything because the preflight values ​​are all at 0 and I cannot set values ​​as they can change from PDF file to file.
This step of eliminating white borders, I still have to do manually with the crop command of Acrobat.
It would be perfect to be able to do it automatically from preflight, also because by doing some tests I managed to create a droplet .exe that contains the preflight, on which I drag the PDF files to be processed.

     

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