Tim Huff - Man, I didn't know Acrobat could do that!

So let me set up the scenario, this workflow is around collaboration and marking up electronic documents.  The reason for the cropping question was that they wanted to make sure the person doing the mark up will be able to focus on a certain area of the layout.  I loaded a typical CAD created PDF and started to use the Crop Command in Acrobat 8 Professional

Here I have highlighted the area of interest that we want to crop to.

Then going to Tools|Advanced Editing|Crop Tool or you can also find it under Document|Crop Tool. 

A dialog box will appear, make sure to select the “Crop Box” style selection

Then simply drag a 2 point box around the area that you want to KEEP.

You will be taken back to the Crop Dialog Box and you will see the coordinates of you selection box now propagated into the proper boxes.

Now hit OK and you will get what is shown below!  Man, I didn’t know Acrobat could do that!

You can now send out just the area you want to be commented on for ease of use and mostly for clarity.  I hope this gives you some new ideas on how to use Acrobat for AEC. For a video of this tip click here Cropping for Mark ups

If you have ideas on some cool tips and tricks you use, e-mail me at thuff@adobe.com

Thanks All

Tim Huff

Acrobat for AEC Blog