You can’t see it, but if you export the file in some other format, or use Acrobat’s content analysis features, it’s easy to find! Guess what? The private data is still there. Then export your InDesign document as a PDF. Or, you could take that PDF and place it in InDesign, and crop it there so that you cannot see the private data. But that original data is still there, easily seen with a couple of clicks! You use Acrobat’s Crop feature to crop it down to just the public data you want visible. Actually, technically, cropping a PDF in Acrobat just changes its “trim” or “crop” rectangle - the original art is all still there.įor example, say you have a PDF with a bunch of private, sensitive information. Have you ever tried to crop a PDF file, cutting out part of a page? The frustrating truth is that Acrobat can crop a PDF, but the stuff outside the cropped area doesn’t truly go away.