crop/fit a specific area of a PDF page to fill the full printed page

[shay1948]

How to crop/fit a specific area of a PDF page to fill the full printed page?
Hi,
I have a PDF containing a large technical drawing (DWF/CAD file viewed via Autodesk Viewer). I want to print only a specific section of the drawing and have it fill the entire printed page as large as possible.
Is there a way in PDF-XChange Editor to:

Select a specific area of the page, and
Print that area scaled to fill the full page?

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Thanks!

[Dimitar - PDF-XChange]

Hello shay1948,

If you want to print only a specific section of the document, you can use the Snapshot Tool in PDF‑XChange Editor.

It allows you to select any area of the page and print just that selection.

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For the cropping you can sue the Cropping tool:

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Regards.

[PHK]

Wouldn't it be easier to use the Select page region tool and then 'Print' from the context menu?

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[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, PHK

These two tools are actually one in the same, and operate with the exact same principals. The question of ease is merely which you can locate faster personally, as the functionality is identical once a region is drawn in the file.

Kind regards,

[PHK]

Hello, PHK

These two tools are actually one in the same, and operate with the exact same principals. The question of ease is merely which you can locate faster personally, as the functionality is identical once a region is drawn in the file.

Kind regards,

Fair point (almost).

1. You have just taught me that we can print right from the Snapshot tool which I did not know.

2. But, to pick a nit, there is a slight difference inasmuch as the Snapshot tool saves the image on the PC's clipboard (not necessarily a bad thing) whether or not it is printed whereas the print from the Select page region tool does not. One more hair split.

Personally, I use the SPR tool (which I have hot-keyed) a lot for many different things and almost never the Snapshot tool and I like using the context menu rather than having to select a new tool, hence my bias. I regard the Snapshot tool as a one-trick pony but the SPR tool as a Swiss Army knife wiith a lot of useful blades.

[Dimitar - PDF-XChange]

Thanks for the input, FringePhil.

[PHK]

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, PHK

Fair point (almost)

My apologies, I should have extrapolated on this further, I meant it quite literally, not in a figurative sense. Your analysis is correct on the secondary features, but I was simply trying to convey that they internally, the are coded as the same tool. One has an extra step of automatically capturing the region, but they are running on the same core code under the covers - In much the same way that the "Edit" tool, has a few "modes" so you can alter the core functions of what it can select, the base tool is always capable of doing that task, it is the same tool running with a set of restrictions in place to help specialize it.

Kind regards,

[PHK]

No apologies necessary, Daniel, it might be down to a difference in perspectives. Whereas I approach the subject from the point of view of the user (being completely naive about coding and the inner workings of the app), you appropriately see it from the app proprietorship viewpoint. There is no right or wrong. We users don't, or probably shouldn't, worry too much about "core code under the covers"; that's your domain.

But if the tools are so similar and differ only at "the secondary features" (a new term to me, but useful nonetheless) level, it makes me think of tool redundancy and the resulting dreaded application bloat. Many tools have multiple "secondary features" but the app does not (and should not) have top-level tools that combine the primary features with secondary features. So, why should the tools co-exist as if they are equivalent to other primary-feature tools whereas it is only the secondary features that differentiate? After all, users can usually assign a hot-key to a secondary feature within the context of a primary feature if it is frequently used.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, PHK

There are as many unique sets of circumstances that least to these tools as there are examples - but that delves a little too far into speculative discussion for me to dedicate much time towards these days. I am sorry to say.

Kind regards,

[PHK]

Hello, PHK

There are as many unique sets of circumstances that least to these tools as there are examples - but that delves a little too far into speculative discussion for me to dedicate much time towards these days. I am sorry to say.

Kind regards,

No problem.

[Dimitar - PDF-XChange]