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How do I crop a PDF with Preview.

How do I crop a PDF with Preview.


For some strange reason, when I crop a PDF using preview the rest of the PDF is still “their” when opened using other software.


I truly want to crop a PDF and have the uncropped portions completely go away. Do I really have to open Photoshop to do this?

Posted on Mar 16, 2013 8:37 AM

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Posted on Mar 16, 2013 8:41 AM

You can use commnad shift 4 and draw a marquee around what you want and click, a image file appears on the desktop that you can change into a PDF or Jpg, using Preview or the free LibreOffice drawing program.


The limitation is your screen size of course.


To edit a PDF you need Adobe's software.

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Mar 16, 2013 8:41 AM in response to Ziatron

You can use commnad shift 4 and draw a marquee around what you want and click, a image file appears on the desktop that you can change into a PDF or Jpg, using Preview or the free LibreOffice drawing program.


The limitation is your screen size of course.


To edit a PDF you need Adobe's software.

Apr 11, 2014 4:24 AM in response to Ziatron

"there" not "their" - unless I am really confused about what you are doing !


I put a white rectangle over what I wanted to crop out of the pdf I was working on.


Not a proper solution, i then needed to use "export as PDF" of my PDF so that the next user of the document couldn't simply lift off the rectangle I had put on the document to cover what ideally I would have removed.


Add mark up is something else I tried, to black out the text that I wanted concealed, but we are limited to a slim choice of colours, not including black.


I would like to see a function "crop" with "crop inside" and "crop outside" options. I am not familiar with Adobe or other software. Presumably since they invented it, Adobe is the place to go if you have repeated exercises requiring meddling with Adobe documents.

How do I crop a PDF with Preview.

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