| Media box |
The media box is the largest page box. The media box corresponds
to the page size (for example A4, A5, US Letter etc.) that you
selected when you printed your document to a PostScript or PDF file.
In other words, the media box determines the physical size of the
media on which the PDF document is displayed or printed. |
| Bleed box |
If you use bleed in your document, the PDF document will also
have a bleed box. Bleed is the amount of color (or any other
artwork) that extends beyond the edge of a page. You can use bleed
to make sure that, when the document is printed and cut to size
(“trimmed”), the ink will be printed to the edge of the page. Even
when the page is “mistrimmed”, i.e. cut slightly off the trim marks
and a bit more to the “outside” of the page, no white edges will
appear on the page. |
| Trim box |
The trim box indicates the final size of a document after
printing and trimming. |
| Art box |
The art box is the box drawn around the actual contents of the
pages in your documents. This page box is used when importing PDF
documents in other applications. |
| Crop box |
The crop box is the “page” size at which your PDF document is
displayed in Adobe Acrobat. In normal view, only the contents of the
crop box are displayed in Adobe Acrobat. |
