I have used indesign for many years and never had this issue. I link pdf drawings / scans of images into my indesign document and crop to the information I want. Sometimes the information cropped out could be sensitive information we do not want to share.
Exporting the document appeared fine on my machine but when sent to an external party it appeared with the pdf images uncropped and showing additional information all over the pages.
This only happened with the pdf links.
Are there any settings that could have made this happen or what can I do to ensure it does not happen? As it appeared correct on my machine I had no idea that after export to pdf it retained the cropped information and just want to ensure I create flattened pages from now on.
Thank you. But this seems very timeconsuming and inflexible for if I want to update the linked file or alter the crop - which is the main reason I use indesign to produce these documents.
Is there no known setting in the exports to ensure the information is cropped not clipped?
"Cropping" PDF can never be reliable. Unless your PDF is just a single image, when you "crop" PDF, you in essence just mask certain areas.
Even if you crop your PDF in Acrobat, then place in InDesign, then export PDF from InDesign, you can still "uncrop" certain areas of the placed PDF in Acrobat.
If you want to eradicate sensitive info from a PDF, I think that the only reliable way is to delete it.
(Unless there are ways to do so I'm not aware of.)
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