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Cropping and rotating pages
The crop tool provides an easy method for modifying a page layout. You can adjust the
margins of one or all the pages in a document, or you can specify margins on a per-page
basis.The crop tool allows you to adjust page margins by setting specific parameters or by
visually setting page boundaries. You can undo a crop operation by opening the Crop
Pages dialog box and resetting the margins. No information is discarded, therefore
cropping does not reduce file size.
Acrobat also provides the option of rotating all pages in a document or only selected
pages. You can rotate a page from a portrait (vertical) display to a landscape (horizontal)
display. Rotation is based on 90-degree increments.
To use the crop tool:
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Choose View > Single Page to display the document in single page layout. It is recom-
mended that you crop pages in Single Page layout.
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Do one of the following:
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Choose Document > Crop Pages.
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Select the crop tool
, and drag a cropping rectangle. Select a handle at a corner of
the cropping rectangle, and drag to the correct size. Double-click inside the rectangle
to bring up the Crop Pages dialog box and manually set the size of the cropping
rectangle.
3
In the Crop Pages dialog box, for Crop Margins, do one of the following:
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Set the required Top, Right, Left, and Bottom margins by typing in a value or clicking the
increment arrows. (The unit of measure for the margins is set in the Acrobat General
preferences.) The thumbnail shows the crop area in red. As you define new margin
values, their boundaries appear on the thumbnail display in the Crop Pages dialog box.
Clicking the increment arrows changes the margins by 1 point, 1/8 inch, or 1mm,
depending on the default value of the unit of measure for the margins. Shift-clicking the
increment arrow increases the amount by which the margins are changed.
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Click Set to Zero to restore the crop margins to zero.
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Click Remove White Margins to crop the page so that the margins are minimal.This
option is useful, for example, for trimming the edges of presentation slides saved in
PDF format.
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Click Revert to Selection to revert to the prior cropping rectangle.
4
For Page Range, select All to apply the margins to the entire document, select Selected
to apply the margins to all thumbnails selected in the Thumbnails palette, or select From,
and enter the range of pages to which the new margins should apply.
5
Select Even and Odd Pages, Odd Pages Only, or Even Pages Only from the Crop menu.
6
Click OK to apply the new margins.
To rotate a page, a range of pages, or all pages:
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To rotate a page, a range of pages, or all pages, do one of the following:
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Choose Document > Rotate Pages.
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From the Thumbnails palette menu, choose Rotate Pages.