11.2.1 for Windows

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and adjust the proportions to crop. You can preview all the boxes on the
right after checking the item Show All Boxes.
CropBox – Defines the content boundary of the page when it’s displayed
or printed.
ArtBox – Defines the meaningful content of the page including blank
space.
TrimBox – Defines the final dimensions of the page after trimming.
BleedBox – Defines the clipping path when the page is printed
professionally to allow for paper trimming and folding. Printing marks
may fall outside the bleed area.
Constrain Proportions – Locks the cropped proportions and each margin will
have the same distance from each side to the border.
Remove White Margins – Crops the page to the artwork boundary, which is
useful for trimming the edges of presentation slides saved as PDFs.
Set To Zero – Restores all the crop margins to zero.
Reset – Resets all the margins to the original dimensions.
4. A rectangle in the page thumbnail showed in the preview box shows the
boundaries of the cropped area.
5. Set the page size and adjust the center of the page content if needed.
6. Choose the page range you want to crop.
7. Choose the unit of the margin cropping values.
8. Click OK.
Note: Cropping does not reduce file size because information is not discarded but
merely hidden. So you can restore the page and its content to its original
dimensions by resetting the page size.
Flatten Pages
The Flatten Pages feature can make annotations and form fields in the PDF file
become part of objects of the PDF pages. This feature is often used when you want
all the comments and form fields to be permanent so that the document receivers
cannot modify them (unless they change them with editing tools), or when you want