Select objects inside or outside region

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What it does

Makes a selection across pages defined by a user-defined area or by PDF page boxes.

This is useful to select (and afterwards remove or move) objects that lay outside the trim box, hence will not be printed.

How to proceed

  1. Define the area inside or outside which the objects should be selected. Choose on of the following options:
    • Define the region relative to the lower left of the media box: You can manually enter the values of the X and Y axis (the anchor point) and the height and with (the size) of the area, or grab them by clicking the icon .
    • Use (one of the page boxes): You can choose one of the page boxes, the printing area or either the art or trim box, depending on what's defined (option the art box (if defined) or trim box).

    • Use region relative to page box: You can specify the exact location of the area to check, for example "place the center left of the region relative to the center right of the bleed box with a particular offset, height and width".
  2. Indicate which objects relative to the defined area should be selected, for example the objects inside or overlapping the region.
  3. Indicate whether or not annotations and clipping paths should be included in the selection.
  4. If applicable, choose whether or not to take into account page rotation and scaling factor.

Example

To select any objects that lay outside of the trim box and delete them, you could use the following:
Select objects inside or outside region <!-- Select "Use trim box" and "Select objects outside region"  -->
Remove selection