This section how to resize pages and how to shift or rotate the visible content on the page.
There are two ways to resize pages: you can use Crop and Shift mode to resize by dragging page edges, or entering values in a popover dialog or you can use pre-canned page resizers available from the Tools → Resize Pages menu.
The Resize Pages menu item of the Tools menu houses a series of standard page size you can resize to. These menu items resize all pages in the document. Simply select the desired target page size and the selected pages will be resized. Resizing this way will not scale the page contents to fit the new page size. If you want the contents of the page scaled along when resizing, hold down the option key while selecting the new page size. (Holding down the option key will be reflected in the menu items by the suffix "(Scaling)" appearing behind the page size.
You can see page resizing in action in our online tutorials.
Enter Crop and Shift mode by clicking the right-most segment of the View Mode button in the toolbar. In this mode you can crop (resize) the display boxes of PDF pages. You can also shift the contents of the page in any direction. These actions can be done simply by dragging the edges of a page (cropping) or dragging the contents of the page (shifting). When dragging page contents, hold the shift and alt keys, to drag only the pages on the same side as the page being dragged.
You can see Crop and Shift in action in our outline tutorials.
To crop/resize a page, activate the media box and drag the appropriate edge of the page inward or outward. Other display boxes can be resized similarly by activating them first and then dragging the edge of the drawn part of the page. The other display boxes can never become bigger than the media box. The width of the dragging edge is color coded so you can easily see which display box is being affected.
If you need to precise numerical cropping/shifting, clicking the tool button on the bezel which is drawn over the page in Crop and Shift mode, brings up a dialog where you can enter the settings. You can also use this dialog to affect the corresponding display boxes for multiple pages. Above you see the dialog box that shows for the Crop Box. The dialogs for the Bleed, Trim and Art boxes are similar. below you see the dialog shown for the media box.
The Crop and Shift dialog for the media box also allows optional content scaling to adjust the contents of the page to its new size.
The Anamorphic Index is a factor of the horizontal and vertical scaling proportions, thus providing a numerical reflection of the amount by which the current size’s proportion deviates from the original size’s proportion.
The content of pages can be arbitrarily rotated. This is especially useful to deskew the pages of originally scanned documents. To start rotating page contents, control-click on a page and select teh Rotate page Contents… item from the contextual menu that pops up. You will see a bezel on each page that shows the current angle of the page content and the cursor shape changes to the rotate cursor.
To rotate the contents either click and drag anywhere on the page, or, if you use a trackpad, use two fingers to perform a rotation gesture. If you prefer you can enter the rotation angle numerically by pressing the tools button to bring up the rotation dialog.
The rotation dialog will show the currently applied rotation, and you can enter a new rotation. Click the Rotate button to confirm the rotation. Through the rotation dialog you can also rotate the selected pages, or all pages by respectively holding down the option key, or the option and shift keys, while clicking the Rotate button. If you select the Deskew check box, the rotation will turn into a deskew operation.
Tip: When deskewing scanned pages, it can be helpful to overlay the grid as a visual cue to help you straighten the page content. (Tools → Grid → Show Grid. If you try to show the grid, and it doesn't appear, then select the Edit Grid item from the Grid menu and set the grid to show on top.)
You can deskew selected pages through the Tools->Rotate->Deskew menu item. This will, to the best of its ability, deskew pages whose contents appear to be somewhat rotated.