Cropping And Rotating - Adobe ACROBAT 9 HOW-TOS Manual

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Spin It Around
Change the orientation of a
document so you don't have
to turn your neck sideways to
read a rotated page. Select the
page in the Pages pane and
choose Options > Rotate or
Document > Rotate Pages to
open the Rotate Pages dialog.
Choose a direction from the
Direction pop-up menu.
Select a Page Range option,
choose either odd or even
pages, and specify portrait or
landscape orientation. Click
OK and the pages are rotated.
Check the Margins
If you are having a hard time
defining a precise margin,
drag the Crop Pages dialog
out of the way and you can
see faint dotted lines overlay-
ing the document page where
the crop margins are set.
Special Crops
In addition to cropping the
content of a page overall, you
can specify special types of
cropping. In the Crop Pages
dialog, click a radio button
to select a trim, bleed, or art
crop instead. Each option
displays a border around the
thumbnail of the page in the
dialog. Proceed with the rest
of the cropping as described
in this technique.
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If you combine several documents from different sources, you may find
discrepancies in the page sizes or orientations. Use the crop and rotate
features in Acrobat to get the pages looking cohesive. Read about rotat-
ing in the sidebar "Spin It Around. "
If you are cropping a single page, display it in the Document pane; if
you are working with more than one image, select the thumbnails in the
Pages pane.
Follow these steps to crop a page:
1. If you have the Advanced Editing toolbar open, click the Crop Tool
to select it. Then click and drag on the page to draw a marquee the size
of the area you want to crop.
2. Double-click within the cropped area to open the Crop Pages dialog.
The area you drew on the document page is shown in the preview,
like the box surrounding the bird in Figure 51a. The settings for the
margins are already entered as well, based on the preselection.
Figure 51a An area selected with the Crop Tool appears automatically in the preview
area of the dialog.
Tip
You can also select the thumbnail in the Pages pane and choose Options >
Crop Pages from the pane's menu, or choose Document > Crop Pages.
There aren't any markings on the preview when you open the dialog.
Transforming Document Pages
Cropping and
rotating pages
From the Library of Daniel Dadian