How to Crop a PDF Without Adobe Acrobat (Free, Permanent)
Permanently trim PDF margins and crop page content without Adobe Acrobat — free browser-based alternative for Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android.
Adobe Acrobat Pro's Crop Pages tool is one of its most-used features — and one of the easiest to replicate for free. FixMyPDF's crop tool trims PDF margins permanently in your browser with no Acrobat subscription.
How Acrobat Crops vs FixMyPDF
Acrobat's Crop Pages (Tools → Edit PDF → Crop Pages) lets you draw a crop box or enter margin values. Our tool takes the same margin inputs (Top, Bottom, Left, Right) and applies a permanent crop to the page content — same result, no subscription.
How to Crop Without Acrobat
Go to fixmypdf.in/tools/crop-pdf. Upload your PDF. Enter margin values to remove from each side. Preview the result. Click "Crop PDF". Download — the page content is permanently trimmed.
Mac Preview's Crop Limitation
Preview's crop (drag a selection → Tools → Crop) modifies the MediaBox but not the underlying content boundary. Many PDF readers ignore the MediaBox and show the full original page. Our crop permanently removes the content outside the defined area, respected by all readers.
Symmetric vs Targeted Cropping
For scanned documents with equal borders on all sides, enter the same value for all four fields. For documents with a large bottom footer that needs removing, set only the Bottom value and leave others at 0. Mix and match margin values for precise asymmetric crops.
No Quality Loss
Cropping removes the edges of the page but doesn't recompress or rescale the remaining content. Vector text and graphics remain sharp; raster images within the kept area are unchanged. Only the discarded edges are removed.
Works on All Devices Without Acrobat
Open fixmypdf.in/tools/crop-pdf on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Android — no Acrobat needed on any platform.
After Cropping
Cropped PDFs are often smaller in file size. Compress further if needed, or merge with other documents at the same dimensions for a consistent page size throughout.
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