Re: Cropping PDF in Acrobat or Pitstop
Gig0,
(if that is your REAL name)
well, of course, there is option 4. Which honestly is the same option used by the u s post office - if things are not 'addresses' properly, simply reject it.
if you can't grow up and learn how to follow the rules - your exchange gets rejected.
in you post, you assume the person exchanging has the responsibility to make things right. in a prepress or commecial print workflow, this often is the fact where you will not get the job or keep the customer because you rejected a file (and they take their file and go elsewhere)
but it is my guess here - in the 'publisher' environment - that is that this is not the case. If you have a PDF in one condition, and it is not in the condition the other party requires, well, then the other party can set up a portal - perhaps that portal has a preflight gadget (perhaps it is even PitStop server!) - and that portal may be set up to send a polite message to the sender that there are problems (maybe even send them a preflight report!) and then the sender must make changes and re-submit.
Or, if the 'condition' is known - and constantly in the same "improper" condition every time - one can create a worklfow (a either the sending or reciving end) where the condition is changed (hot folder, portal, whatever)
So, in the end, a file can be rejected because it is not in the 'required' condition, or a file can be 'automatically modified' and made to be in the proper print condition - and no one needs to do much more than decide where it makes the most business sense.
I have worked with publishers who accept folders full of 8 bit greyscale scans of paper documents as input.
They go into to a 'batch processing folder' where the files get converted into deskewed, descreened, despeckled and imposed "ready to print" PDF files - all 'headless" - no humans required.
http://www.elan-gmk.com/Products/Proofer/ELAN_BeforeAfter.pdf
It is always less about technology and more about business relationships.