{"id":14987,"date":"2019-04-03T09:39:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T07:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diedruckerei.de\/magazin\/?p=14987"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:55:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:55:53","slug":"crop-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlineprinters.ie\/magazine\/crop-pdf\/","title":{"rendered":"How to crop PDFs quickly with and without an Adobe Cloud subscription"},"content":{"rendered":"

You need a single page in your PDF in a different final format? You want to remove the white edge of your PDF document? You want to delete crop marks on all pages of your PDF document? By cropping the entire PDF or single pages, you change or rather reduce the final format.<\/span><\/p>\n

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How to crop PDFs in Acrobat<\/span><\/h2>\n

To crop differently sized pages of a PDF to a consistent format, Adobe Acrobat provides the page cropping function. You can crop the PDF either manually using the tool or enter coordinates. First choose\u00a0<\/span>View<\/span>\u00a0>\u00a0<\/span>Tools<\/span>\u00a0>\u00a0<\/span>Edit PDF<\/span>\u00a0>\u00a0<\/span>Open<\/span>. Then click the <\/span>Crop Pages<\/span> command in the secondary toolbar. The mouse pointer changes into a crosshair crop tool. Use it to define the area to keep on your PDF page. The cropping rectangle is displayed with a transparent coloured background.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Define a custom size: Double-click inside the cropping rectangle to open a dialogue box in which you can enter the exact dimensions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After releasing the mouse button, the rectangle is displayed with corner handles which you can drag to change the selection. When you are done, double-click on the rectangle to open the crop dialogue box. You can check you entries here and correct them if necessary. In the lower right of the dialogue box you can specify to which pages these settings are applied: the current page only, multiple pages or all pages.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the lower right section of the window, you can define to which pages of the document the values are applied.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the way, you can use different page size definitions such a CropBox, TrimBox or BleedBox provided by the program in which the PDF was created. The automatic removal of white edges for presentations is a useful feature of the CropBox. Make the desired settings, click OK, done!<\/span><\/p>\n

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CropBox, TrimBox and BleedBox can be displayed optionally in Acrobat to view and edit additional information which is important for pre-press.<\/p>\n

CropBox:<\/strong>\u00a0Information such as bleed or registration marks outside the CropBox is hidden but not deleted.
\nTrimBox:<\/strong>\u00a0This box represents the final, trimmed product size.
\nBleedBox:<\/strong>\u00a0The size of the frame of the final product size including bleed (usually three millimetres on all sides) is displayed here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Cropping a PDF in Acrobat Reader?<\/h2>\n

Once again, you have to find that the main purpose of Adobe Acrobat Reader is to view a PDF document and not edit it. Hence, most editing options, including cropping a PDF, are not available here. Instead, the program offers web services which you can use to rotate the PDF online and separate tools that can be downloaded to do a number of jobs offline or outside of Acrobat Reader. However, the latter is very limited if you are looking for a free option.<\/p>\n

Using an online service to crop PDFs<\/h2>\n

Online services include for example:<\/p>\n