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Has Acrobat X crippled the ability to crop pages?

Is it true that Acrobat X Pro has eliminated the crop page dialog that used the be available in earlier versions of Acrobat? We have used the crop dialog (particularly the "remove white space" feature) a *lot* because we like to use PDF as the metafile format for graphics being inserted into FrameMaker docs. But in Acrobat X Pro, all I can find for the life of me is the manual crop feature, which is very imprecise.
And to make matters worse, I can't find any way to undo a crop once it has been performed. In older versions, you could always go back to the dialog and tweak the crop margins or remove the cropping altogether if you needed to.
Am I missing something, or has Acrobat X just rendered PDF a lot less useful as a format for graphic objects?


Fred Ridder


4 Answers

Voted Best Answer

Look in the Print Production section of the Tools panel and you will find the "Set Page Boxes" tool that will take you directly to the dialog.


By Leonard Rosenthol   

The answer is no, but it has become much less intuitive. The old dialog is still there, but getting to it is really tricky.

When you select the Crop Pages tool, it just lets you draw a box on the page. When you right-click that box you have several options like "Set ArtBox", "Set CropBox", "Set BleedBox", etc, as well as other, non-related options. The trick is to double-click that box after drawing it. Then you'll get the old Crop Pages dialog, with the Remove White Margins tick box and everything.
The really dumb part is that changes made through the right-click menu can't be undone, but changes made via the dialog can be... Go figure. Also, there's no option in the right-click menu to open that dialog box, nor is it accessible from any menu item (as far as I could see). I've discovered it by accident while playing around with the tools.


Gilad D (try67)   

You can also seledt the crop box tool from the right navigation panel under Tools, then double-click anywhere in the page. This will also open the dialogue box.

However, the Set Page Boxes under Printer Production seems to take precedence.

I was trying to run an Action Wizard to crop a pdf --which I've done numerous times on different versions-- but it did not work on a pdf where someone had already set the Set Page Boxes to something other than zero. Using the Tools/Crop Box did not work until I reset all the Boxes in the Set Page Boxes back to zero.


Vicky Pettit   

While the others have explained this issue with using the 'print production' then 'set page boxes' option it doesn't explain why the key combo "command shift + t" no longer works and instead goes to insert pages.....


Fozzie Bear   

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