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Cropping and Reverse Cropping PDF Pages

It's easy, but not as easy as you think

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David Dagley
Mar 16, 2024
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The Acrobat Pro user interface (UI) has a tool for cropping PDF pages which can by accessed a few different ways, among them:

  • Press Shift + Ctrl + T on the keyboard (Windows Operating System)

  • Open the pages panel of the PDF, right-click a page and select Crop Pages.

  • Search Crop in the Tools tab and select Crop Page.

Similar to cutting a rectangle out of a physical paper page with scissors and discarding the excess, cropping a PDF page allows you to crop a rectangle out of an electronic page so you only see the cutout. The difference is that the excess is not discarded. While not visible on the screen, it remains in electronic format, and can be retrieved by reverse cropping.


a person using a machine to cut a piece of paper
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