Cropping does what?

[abitslow]

I cropped a pdf and the resulting square was a 10th of the original pdf. It was still 9/10ths the kb of the original. It includes links (as did the rest of the removed section). These links still were active. What exactly does cropping remove? Does the original content remain but 'unseen'?

 

[tgreer]

Yes, just what you said. All cropping does is add a "crop" instruction to the document. It's up to the document consumer (Acrobat or whatever) to decide what to do with a cropped document.

Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com

 

[abitslow]

Many thanks - a second question: is there a way of just cutting out the area (leaving links within it still intact)?

 

[tgreer]

I'm not sure, sorry. Perhaps someone else will jump in.

Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com

 

[tperkins]

Try a program called PitStop,

http://www.enfocus.com,

You can change just about everything you need to in a pdf that you can't with Acrobat. To fix your problem all you would do is to delete the links, graphics, text etc. that you don't want then resize your document. It's a pretty handy little program for someone who gets alot of pdf's in and has to output them.

 

[abitslow]

Thanks again!