Manual editing of .joboptions file

[ruslanp88335264]

Dears, is there any possibility to export cropped PDFs by changing settings in .joboptions file? In our case it's cropping the bleed + a few mm in addition on all the edges.

We design thousands of layouts and use them both for print and digital. Since perfect binding is used in production, we create offset on some pages, so the layout looks nice in the middle of the spread, however for digital it doesn't look alright. I've been wondering if we can have different PDF presets, one for print, and another one for digital with bleed and some more space cropped.

Thank you for any tip or advice!

[jmlevy]

Yes of course: File menu > Adobe PDF presets > define. Select the one which be the basis for the new one, then click on the “new” button and set it as you want

[ruslanp88335264]

Hi @jmlevy !

Thank you for your reply! The issue is that I cannot find a way to set up actually cropping of the PDF in that window UI. We need to crop each page 9 mm from each side (5.5 of the defined bleed + 3.5 mm in addition). Do you think it's possible to define in the PDF preset after all? Or maybe there are some other automatized workarounds?

[jmlevy · Accepted solution]

Oh I am sorry, I completely misunderstood what you need to do! No, you cannot define a crop zone in the export preset. You have to use Acrobat for this or other PDF third-party tools.