How to crop permanently in Acrobat?

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After cropping anything by using the crop tool in Adobe Acrobat, how do I ensure that the cropped area is fixed and can’t be seen even when I increase the crop margin?

For example: how would I crop the following example (image and text) to ensure the image and the part “I don’t want to include this text” are really removed, and not hidden somewhere in the result?

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Adobe Reader’s crop tool only seems to hide the cropped part; it does not really remove it:

Reader's Crop Tool

Answer

You can use PdfCpu:

pdfcpu crop '0 0 .5 0' in.pdf out.pdf

https://pdfcpu.io/core/crop.html

Or if you must use Acrobat:

You can do this with a Preflight fixup. It is annoying to set up, but pretty
easy to use after that.

  1. Tools
    Print Production
    Preflight
    Select single fixups
    Options
    Create New Preflight Fixup
  2. Name Permanent crop
  3. Fixup category Pages
  4. Type of fixup Set page geometry boxes
  5. Source MediaBox
  6. Destination Relative to TrimBox (meaning “use the dimensions of the TrimBox”).
  7. OK
  8. Fix

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Source : Link , Question Author : metal gear solid , Answer Author : Steven Penny

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