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In response to my previous post, a long time friend and collegue (Claudia McCue of Practicalia - one of the best trainers I know) wrote to ask:
Thanks for passing this on, but it looks to me like the Crop Tool still just masks out content: prepress wants a REAL crop tool that destructively gets rid of extra content. Some pagination software ignores the Crop info and just looks at the “real” dimensions. I’ll keep looking to see if I’ve missed something, though.
Claudia - I am happy to report that Acrobat 9 answers your needs! In fact, we provide two different ways to accomplish the task, depending on your particular workflow.
The best way to remove hidden information from a PDF - be it cropped data, unwanted metadata or other things that might be lurking about in your documents is the Examine Document command that was introduced in Acrobat 8.
In Acrobat 9, we have significantly improved this tool with more tests for hidden data, and an interactive display of the content to be removed so you can better pick and choose what stays and what goes. Oh - and you can incorporate this into a Batch Sequence, if you want to do this to multiple PDFs.
Alternatively, for those who are more familiar with, or spend their time working with our Preflight tools - you'll find two new Quick Fixes already provided for removing either information outside the CropBox or outside of Trim (more common in the print production world).
Of course, if neither of those suits your exact needs - you can create your own fixup which deletes content from the area of your choice. And don't forget that Preflight can also be called from a Batch Sequence or you can use the Droplets feature.
So Claudia - I hope that answers your questions and that you (and others) will find these new features helpful in your print production needs! (P.S. In exchange, you buy the beer next time ;)
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add new commentIt's in there!
If you use the Examine Document method listed above, it will remove any image data outside the clipping path...
Now all we need is the ability to crop images on a page where a clipping path just shows part of a picture but a large portion of the image still exists adding to the file size.
Well a double SNAP and a WHOOO_HOOO !
Amazingly, I think several of us asked Adobes Diane Eckloff and John Fellman (sp?) for that at a PDF group meeting held at a Seybold conference in 1997.
I guess patience IS a virtue! I think you, the RIP in front of my printer thanks you as do a billion pixels who do not want to be transfered only to be thrown away from the frame buffer thank you.