previewing bleeds in acrobat

[musenut]

How can I preview whether or not a doc has a bleed that has been hidden (cropped behind a white margin or otherwise) in acrobat 9?

thanks!

 

[zoran]

You can make page boxes bigger, but that won't help you if there are clipping paths or masks that will hide the bleeds further.
In such case I am afraid you might need third party software to resize those masks to show bleed.
Easy way to do would be with Pitstop and other PDF editors, I am not sure that you can do it with Acrobat itself.
I hope this helps.

 

[musenut]

I do have pitstop

I do have pitstop

how can I do it with pitstop? I just want to be able to verify that there is a bleed ...

 

[mattbeals]

use global change to change the crop box to the same size as the media box.

 

[leonardr]

How can I preview whether or not a doc has a bleed that has been hidden (cropped behind a white margin or otherwise) in acrobat 9?

You can see if the file has been cropped, and if so, what was cropped out, by simply choosing "Advanced->Print production->Crop Pages". that will display a full preview of the page with any crop/bleed/trim boxes identified.