Crop Pages
These options are used to crop documents. Hover over Crop Pages to open the following submenu:
Figure 1. Document Tab Submenu. Crop Pages
Click Crop Pages to crop document pages. The following dialog box will open:
Figure 2. Crop Pages Dialog Box
PDF documents feature up to five boxes that determine their content and appearance. They are the Media Box, Crop Box, Bleed Box, Trim Box and Art Box. PDF-XChange Editor uses four of these boxes to determine customizable settings. See here for further information.
•Use the Crop Margins settings to determine the cropping parameters.
•Select the Show All Boxes box to view/edit all boxes in the preview pane.
•Use the Crop Method menu to select the cropping method. There are four options. Three of these: Remove All White Spaces, Remove Vertical White Spaces and Remove Horizontal White Spaces have predefined and self-explanatory settings that cannot be changed. The fourth option, Manual Control of Margins, allows the user to define boxes and margins.
•Use the Apply to Box menu to select and edit box margins.
•Enter the desired measurements for the Left, Right, Top and Bottom margins of the selected box.
•Select the Constrain Proportions box to maintain the ratio of margins. For example if the margin in the Left box is changed to 5mm then the margins in the Right, Top and Bottom boxes will also be changed to 5mm.
•Use Set to Zero, Revert to Original and Set To White Margins to apply these functions to boxes selected in the Apply to Box menu.
•Select the Remove the content outside of the crop box area box to remove content outside the crop box. Any information cropped away by the crop box will not be removed from the file's underlying code unless this option is selected.
•The Pages Range settings are as follows:.
•Select All to crop all the pages of the document.
•Select Current Page to crop only the current page.
•Use the Pages box to determine specific pages of the document to be cropped. See here for further information.
•Use the Subset option to select All Pages, Odd Pages Only or Even Pages Only.
•When the desired settings have been selected click OK to crop pages.
Click Crop Page Tool to crop documents. The Crop Tool dialog box will open:
Figure 3. Crop Page Tool, Crop Tool Dialog Box
•Click Drag Crop Rectangle. The pointer will turn into a crosshairs icon. Click and drag to select the area to be cropped. When the mouse button is released, the dialog box detailed in (figure 2) will launch. Configure the parameters as desired and then click OK to crop documents.
Click Remove Cropped Content to remove cropped content from documents.