This is totally off my usual topic of Acrobat. Having drunk the Acrobat Kool-Aid, I live and breathe Acrobat, but sometimes I need a break and have gotten into fitness too. The biggest thing that has helped me is my Polar watch, www.polarusa.com. It sets up training programs and weekly goals. I've significantly improved my fitness and with it, I've been able to track it. I put this PDF together for a friend and thought it might help others get fit so am including it here.

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I was sent the wrong link for the Redaction webinar recording. Here's the correct one: http://emergent.na3.acrobat.com/p45882300/

Here's a recording on redacting information in PDFs using Acrobat: http://emergent.na3.acrobat.com/p45882300/
This webinar was for DHS (Department of Homeland Security) and sponsored by Emergent: http://www.emergent360.com/vendor/adobe/ and Adobe: http://www.adobe.com . It was great to have the opportunity to dig into the weeds of one important aspect of Acrobat and help DHS.

Please note the comment from Adobe's Dave Stromfeld. He notes that Document> Examine Document will also permanently crop a PDF. I really appreciate the comments and learned something new. Thanks, Dave!!

From the Acrobat Help: "Deleted Hidden Page And Image Content PDFs sometimes retain content that has been removed and which is no longer visible, such as cropped or deleted pages, or deleted images."
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Standard/WS7E9FA147-10E3-4391-9CB6-6E44FBDA8856.w.html

Here's the result of running Examine Document on a cropped PDF:

Totally trusting the esteemed Jean-Claude Tremblay, after his comment, and my post regarding it, I wanted to try it. So using the link bit.ly/wjCva, I downloaded the prepress profile and installed it. Then I made a PDF from an image and cropped it in Acrobat.

Upon reopening the Document> Crop Pages dialog you can see that the cropped elements are still there and could be uncropped:



Then I selected "Set Media Box to Crop box and Remove objects outside Cropbox" and clicked Analyze and Fix:



A second or two later the Preflight profiles dialog indicated that it had been done:



Next I went back to the Crop dialog (Document> Crop pages) to see that the cropped part of the image was totally gone and it is:



And as Jean-Claude notes, a special thanks Leonard Rosenthal of Adobe for his expertise.

 Jean-Claude Tremblay (an Acrobat expert and fellow PDF traveler) made this excellent comment on cropping PDFs and prepress issues. Note the link to his blog and the custom profile available there:

"You mention in your post that the information is not removed in the PDF and that’s true. It is also true that when processed by some rips the cropping will not be preserved. Fortunately, both issues can be fix with a custom Preflight profile. I have blogged about this and offer a link to download the custom profile. http://bit.ly/pdfcrop "

Thanks, Jean-Claude!!  info@proficiografik.com, http://www.proficiografik.com

To crop a PDF, use the Crop Tool, Document> Crop Pages. To access the Crop Tool faster, use the keyboard shortcut, “Shift-Cmd/Control_T”

Be aware that cropping a PDF does not actually remove information from the PDF.  The “crop” can be un-done at anytime by opening the Crop Tool Dialog box, Document> Crop Pages.

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Acrobat, PDF workflows, forms design and development, and training is available. Cut your workflows in half and significantly reduce your business costs.

As a best practice in form design, forms should include a “Reset” button to clear all the fields to reuse the form or to clear
mistakes. Reset buttons are usually set to clear all the fields. In specific cases, a “Reset” button might be used to clear specific
fields and leave the others untouched.

With a full version of Acrobat 9 Standard, Acrobat 9 Pro, and Acrobat Pro Extended there is also a “Clear Form” menu item
at the bottom of the Form menu. This function is not available in the Adobe Reader.

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PDF workflow, forms design and development, and training is available. Cut your workflow in half and significantly reduce costs.

Built into Acrobat is a dynamic approval stamp. It is dynamic by including the name of the user, the time and date of the stamp. The first time it is selected, a dialog will appear requiring the user to add their name and at minimum, their email address.

The commenting functionality is available in the free Adobe Reader, when the PDF has been sent from a user with a full version of Acrobat through the Comment Review process or Reader enabled, by a user of a full version of Acrobat.
For users of Reader the Comment & Markup toolbar will automatically appear on a PDF that has been enabled. For users of a full version of Acrobat select Comment> Show Comment & Markup Tools.

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Watermarks are added to a PDF to indicate and add additional information and make it more obvious. The most common watermarks are Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret. Another common watermark is a companies logo or other artwork.

Watermarks can be easily removed and edited. Securing a PDF with a watermark may be appropriate.

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