How to crop multiple pages at a time with Preview for Mac OS - Out:think Author Marketing Tips

Welcome to this tutorial on how to quickly and easily create an excerpt from a larger PDF and then crop that PDF to a smaller size using Mac OS and the application "Preview". Preview is a built-in application on all Macs that allows you to view and edit PDFs, images, and other types of files.
First, open the PDF that you want to create an excerpt from in Preview. Next, use the selection tool to highlight the portion of the PDF that you want to extract. Once you have made your selection, go to the "Edit" menu and choose "Copy" or use the keyboard shortcut "Command + C".
Next, create a new document in Preview by going to "File" and then "New From Clipboard". This will create a new document with only the selected text. Now you can save this excerpt as a new PDF.
Finally, if you want to crop the PDF to a smaller size, first Zoom out to that you can see all 4 corner crop marks, then select all pages by clicking on one of the pages in the page thumbnails, and click "Command + A" to select all of them. Next, open the Markup tools by clicking the Pen icon and choose the rectangular selection tool.
Target the crop marks and eyeball your selection, then you can get more granular by opening the inspector tool and adjusting your selection size. Once you're satisfied, click the Crop icon.
You'll get a warning that the newly cropped sections might be visible in other programs. Click "OK" and continue on. Once done, save your changes.
And there you have it, by following these simple steps you can easily create an excerpt from a larger PDF and then crop it to a smaller size using Mac OS and the application "Preview".
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[@kimb9362]

Exactly what I needed, thank you!