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Expert: Ken Black - 7/10/2009


Question
Hello, I am putting together a sports program. I am grabbing a lot of
advertisements from a previous 24 page program. I extract the page, then crop
the ad that I want, save. The problem comes when I pull the ad into InDesign
(mac), the whole page comes in and is not cropped. I'm worried that it is going
to make the file just huge by the time I am done. Any suggestions?

Answer
Hi Shelly,

When you crop the ad in Acrobat, the rest of the page is still in the pdf file. Acrobat is cropping the page for the screen or print from within Acrobat.

As you import the ad into Indesign, turn on the "show options" check box in the import window. This will allow you to select "Page Crop" when importing the pdf file and will show the cropped ad on the page and should help a little with the overall file size.

Thanks,

Ken Black

www.bestprintingonline.com

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