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Long documents

Crop pages, or trim margins on screen

How to do it

Cut pages down for good, or just hide wide margins while you read.

To crop for good, choose Crop Pages (or press Ctrl+K and type "crop").
Drag a box around the area to keep and click Apply crop. It crops the pages selected in the thumbnails, or just the page you drew on. Then save.
To hide margins only while you read, choose View > Trim Margins (Ctrl+Alt+T). Every page is shown cut to its text, so it fills the window.

Trim Margins on a scanned letter, with the wide margins and the scanner shadow hidden

Good to know

Trim Margins never changes the file, and it's remembered for each file.
The dark shadow a scanner leaves along an edge doesn't count as text, so it gets trimmed too.
Printing and exporting always use the whole page while Trim Margins is on.

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