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Reducing page size to trim box

Contributor ,
Oct 07, 2024 Oct 07, 2024

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This is something I need to do fairly frequently, and it boggles my mind that I cannot find any way to do it on the Internet…

 

Is there a way in Acrobat to reduce the page size of a PDF file to the trim box (or crop box or bleed box, for that matter)?

 

There is a “Change Page Size” option in Set Page Boxes which supposedly sets the media box – but its name is misleading precisely because it only allows you to increase the page size, not reduce it.

 

I have found lots of people asking about this, and then being told to set the crop box to the desired size, but that is not what I’m looking for. Setting the crop box does not change the page size (= media box?) of the PDF or remove content outside the crop box (though the latter can be done with a preflight fix in a separate step); but more importantly, any application or process reading the file is free to respect or ignore the crop box, and different systems/processes do in fact do this inconsistently. If the file passes through various systems and processes before reaching the end user and the visible page size is set only with the crop box, you have no way of knowing whether it will end up being seen (in whatever format or context it ends up) with the intended, cropped page size or the original media box size.

 

So what I’m looking for is a way to change a PDF file so that the crop/trim/bleed box area becomes the page size, and all content (not only objects, but even any box sizes) outside this area is completely and irrevocably deleted from the file forever and ever. Preferably without having to re-print or distill the PDF file to a new file, though if that is the only way, I guess I’ll have to accept that (though I can’t even figure out how to do that anymore in recent versions of Acrobat – the Print dialog no longer contains an Acrobat PDF printer, for some reason…).

 

Is this possible?

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 23, 2024 Oct 23, 2024

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Hi @Janus Bahs Jacquet 

 

For the query below:

(though I can’t even figure out how to do that anymore in recent versions of Acrobat – the Print dialog no longer contains an Acrobat PDF printer, for some reason…).

 

Can you please let me know your OS version and Acrobat version details. Also, since when you are not able to see Adobe PDF Printer? 

 

Thanks,

Shakti K

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Oct 24, 2024 Oct 24, 2024

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This is on macOS (Sonoma). I haven’t had the need to use the print dialog to make a PDF file for years and years, so it could have disappeared at any time since perhaps 2019 or so.

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