One of the most popular ways to edit a PDF document is to crop PDF pages. Cropping PDF pages can often allow you to create brand new PDF documents from existing ones. You can also easily use cropping to remove pages with less than accurate information or a page that may not fit in to the overall document.
If you're looking for the best way to crop PDF pages and get your document just the way you want it, this article will show you how.
To crop PDF pages correctly, you need a tool that id designed to help you edit all aspects of the PDF document. This tool is PDFelement Pro and it comes with all the features you need to fully edit your PDF document. To crop pages from PDF with PDFelement is very easy because the software itself comes with a simple to use interface that is very navigable. Here's how to crop a page in PDF using PDFelement.
Download and install PDFelement to your computer. Double-click on the program icon to launch it.
The next step is to open the PDF document you want to edit. To do that, you can simply drag and drop the file into the program's main window. You can also click on "Open File" and then browse the file you need to open.
To crop the PDF page sizes, click on the "Page" menu and then select "Page Boxes." In the dialogue box that appears, under "Margin Setting" make sure "CropBox" is selected in "Apple To" and then set the margins as desired.
If you'd like to crop all the pages on the document, simply select "All Pages in range" under "Subset" menu.
One of PDFelement most impressive features is the fact that it is so easy to use. The interface is simplified enough to make it easy to get around even for the beginner user. But that's not the only feature that makes it the ideal tool to edit PDF document. The following are just some of the other features it comes with that will help you edit a PDF document easily.
You can also decide to use one of the numerous online PDF editing tools to crop PDF pages online for free. While there are very many online PDF editing tools, not very many are reliable. The following are 3 of the best online PDF crop tools you can use.
Sejda online editor also offers a simple and very easy way to edit a PDF document. There are lots of options to edit a PDF document using this service. One of them is cropping including trimming PDF margins and changing the PDF's page size.
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PDFResizer offers a great an easy way to crop PDF pages on any PDF document. All you have to do is upload the PDF document in question, select the area you'd like to crop and click on "Crop to Selection."
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PDF Candy is another online tool that you can easily use to crop PDF document. Its user-interface makes very clear the steps you need to take to crop a PDF document and it also comes with a wide-range of other a PDF editing tools.
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Adobe Acrobat is another very reliable tool you can use to crop PDF pages. As the original PDF editor, many people often turn to Acrobat when they need to edit PDFs and with good reason. It is easy to use and comes packed with all the features you will need when editing any aspect of the PDF document. Here's how you can crop PDF pages using Adobe Acrobat.
Step 1.Install Adobe Acrobat on your computer if you don't have it already and then open the PDF document you want to crop.
Step 2.In the "Tools" section of the Task Pane, select the "Crop" tool. When you do this, the cursor will acquire crosshairs. You can then simply drag it over the area you want to remain visible.
Step 3.Once you have your desired section, double-click within the cropping rectangle to finish the cropping. This will open the "Set Page Boxes" section where you can see the document's new parameters. You can also choose to change the margin size of any page. In the "Page Range" section, you can choose to apply the crop to all pages on the document.
Common Problems on Using Adobe to Crop PDF Pages
As reliable as Adobe Acrobat is, it does have a few problems when cropping a document. They include the following:
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