Possible to crop to page Indesign?

[Annaliese3131394664c9]

I am wondering if it is possible to crop out everything outside of the page/ artboard in Indesign? 

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

There's no single command that will trim oversize objects or bring their frame edges in to the page border, but you can do the latter manually.

And, of course, switching to Preview view will show only the active page contents.

Other than having an exceptional case of the 'neats,' I don't think there's much need of such a feature — such cropping is inherent to all printing and export operations. Do you have some specific reason for needing or wanting it, besides just cleanup of the designer view? (ETA: Something I can't fault at all... I hate a sprawling mess around my work, even if I 'know' it will go away in the export...)

[Steve Werner]

If you needed to, you could probably do it like this (all objects to be cropped need to be on one layer).

1. Choose Edit > Select All, the choose Object > Group so everything you have is in one grouped object.

2. Create a layer above this group, and create a rectangle the trim size of the document page.

3. Select the group you created and Edit > Cut to put it on the Clipboard.

4. Select the trim size rectangle, then choose Edit > Paste Into.

[John Mensinger]

Speaking strictly of the mechanics, you could select all, cut, then Paste Into a page-sized frame. But doing that would accomplish nothing useful. On the contrary, it would eliminate required bleeds, land everything on a single layer, make it much harder to edit, and perhaps further exacerbate some of the layout errors evident in your design.

[Steve Werner]

There's no reason I can think to do this if you are printing.

But I can imagine it might be useful for a display.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Even that, an export to JPEG or PDF will still crop to the page size, or bleeds. I can't imagine using the ID layout as a live display.

[John Mensinger]

Well perhaps, if the objective is to show it to someone on your InDesign screen, but no moreso than just tapping W.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

I think the proper practice would be to drag each object frame to the bleed line, once the piece is positioned and sized. Even that will create some degree of secondary issues that would be avoided by leaving the frames (especially rotated or odd-shaped ones) full size. But I understand the drive to neaten up the layout.

[jmlevy]

It also can be done using pathfinder: