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Display Options
Margin Controls
Change Page Sizes
Crop Pages
You can do much more than just crop pages in Acrobat . Display Art, Trim, Bleed, and Crop
boxes as overlays on the thumbnail preview . Move the boundaries of those boxes with Margin
Controls, and extend the page size by using the Change Page Size options .
Changing Page Margins
Here's how to change page margins in Acrobat 9 Pro.
1. Choose Advanced > Print Production > Crop Pages, or click the Crop tool (
Production toolbar.
2. In the Crop Pages dialog box, choose a unit of measure.
3. In the Crop Margins area of the Crop Pages dialog box, select the boundary to modify (Crop-
Box, ArtBox, TrimBox, or BleedBox). You can select one of the following boundaries:
• Crop defines the boundary for the contents of a page when it's displayed or printed.
If not otherwise specified (for example, in the JDF settings), the crop boundary
determines how page contents are positioned on the output medium.
• Trim defines the finished dimensions of the page after trimming.
• Bleed defines the clipping path when the page is printed professionally to allow for
paper trimming and folding. Printer marks may fall outside the bleed area.
• Art defines the meaningful content of the page, including white space.
4. In the Margin Controls area, adjust the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right margins by entering
values or clicking the increment arrows. Margin values are the amount the boundary is moved
inward from its initial position. Lines are displayed on the page thumbnail and in the docu-
ment window to show the new margin positions.
5. Select other options, as appropriate:
• Remove White Margins crops the page to the artwork boundary.
• Set To Zero restores the crop margins to zero.
• Revert To Selection reverts to the crop margin that you selected with the Crop tool.
6. Specify the desired pages to be affected by your margin choices, and click OK.
You can also crop a page by selecting the Crop tool in the Advanced Editing toolbar, or by choos-
ing Tools > Advanced Editing > Crop Tool and dragging a cropping rectangle on the page. Select
a handle at a corner of the cropping rectangle, and drag it to the size you want. Double-click
within the cropping rectangle (or press the Enter or Return key on the keyboard) to open the
Crop Pages dialog box. Cropping is nondestructive: it affects only display and print, but does not
eliminate any content. Later, you can change the cropping specifications or return to the bound-
aries of the original document.
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