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chefguru · 09-07-2010, 02:55 PM

I've had a similar problem with needing to crop multiple pages. I bought a mobile scanner to scan a bunch of sheet music. The program auto-rotates the PDFs so the lines are straight, which is a great feature. The down side is that when it rotates the image, it leaves black borders, and because it turns the actual page, the final PDF isn't always 8.5x11, sometimes it may be up to an inch wider and taller. If I wanted to reprint those pages, I'm going to have black triangles in the page.

I've tried a few of the programs other people mentioned here (PDFill being the most suggested to me), and if I was just doing what you're looking for, to strip the same amount of border off of each page, then it would be fine, but I needed more.

Because each page I have is possibly rotated in different areas, I can't always apply the same cropping rule to every page at once. but A-PDF Page Crop goes one step further than the other programs mentioned here.

You can do the same thing with all the programs, and set a border for every page, and auto-crop that much, but this is the only program I've found that lets you have an actual box on the screen that you can manipulate and move before applying the crop area. You can do each page separately, or just do the first page and apply the same rules to all the other pages you're editing.

It's got a lot of other features too, but that's the one that I use every week, and I think you might find it a little bit easier to use that some of the others listed here.

http://www.a-pdf.com/page-crop/download.htm

Give it a shot, I don't think you'll be disappointed.

09-07-2010, 02:55 PM	#17
chefguru Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle DX	I've had a similar problem with needing to crop multiple pages. I bought a mobile scanner to scan a bunch of sheet music. The program auto-rotates the PDFs so the lines are straight, which is a great feature. The down side is that when it rotates the image, it leaves black borders, and because it turns the actual page, the final PDF isn't always 8.5x11, sometimes it may be up to an inch wider and taller. If I wanted to reprint those pages, I'm going to have black triangles in the page. I've tried a few of the programs other people mentioned here (PDFill being the most suggested to me), and if I was just doing what you're looking for, to strip the same amount of border off of each page, then it would be fine, but I needed more. Because each page I have is possibly rotated in different areas, I can't always apply the same cropping rule to every page at once. but A-PDF Page Crop goes one step further than the other programs mentioned here. You can do the same thing with all the programs, and set a border for every page, and auto-crop that much, but this is the only program I've found that lets you have an actual box on the screen that you can manipulate and move before applying the crop area. You can do each page separately, or just do the first page and apply the same rules to all the other pages you're editing. It's got a lot of other features too, but that's the one that I use every week, and I think you might find it a little bit easier to use that some of the others listed here. http://www.a-pdf.com/page-crop/download.htm Give it a shot, I don't think you'll be disappointed.