The Crop Pages feature allows you to adjust the visible page area, which is helpful if you want to create visual consistency in page size within a PDF document that contains pages of different sizes.
Crop one or more pages
- Open the PDF document you want to crop.
- Right click the target page(s) on the Pages thumbnails, choose Crop Pages. Or, choose Organize > Crop Pages, and drag the cursor to select an area you want to crop.
In the pop-up Set Page Dimensions dialog box, (the margin measurement indicates the size of the selected area if any), you can specify the settings in the Margin Control: select CropBox, ArtBox, TrimBox, or BleedBox (they are displayed in the preview box in black, red, green and blue respectively) and adjust the proportions to crop. You can preview all the boxes on the right after checking the item Show All Boxes.
CropBox – Defines the content boundary of the page when it’s displayed or printed.
ArtBox – Defines the meaningful content of the page including blank space.
TrimBox – Defines the final dimensions of the page after trimming.
BleedBox – Defines the clipping path when the page is printed professionally to allow for paper trimming and folding. Printing marks may fall outside the bleed area.
Constrain Proportions – Locks the cropped proportions and each margin will have the same distance from each side to the border.
Remove White Margins – Crops the page to the artwork boundary, which is useful for trimming the edges of presentation slides saved as PDFs.
Set To Zero – Restores all the crop margins to zero.
Reset – Resets all the margins to the original dimensions.
- A rectangle in the page thumbnail shown in the preview box shows the boundaries of the cropped area. Tip: You can directly drag the selection handles on the borders of the rectangle to adjust the boundaries.
- Set the page size and adjust the center of the page content if needed.
- Specify the page range you want to crop. For the Crop item, you can choose All pages in range, Even pages only, Odd pages only, Landscape pages, or Portrait pages to crop the related pages in the specified range.
- Choose the unit of the margin cropping values.
- Click OK.
Note: Cropping does not reduce file size because information is not discarded but merely hidden. And you can restore the page and its content to its original dimensions by resetting the page size.