How to crop a PDF page or copy a detail to a new page

Crop a sheet to a chosen region, restore the full page, or copy a drawing detail onto its own page in Deta.

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Find the controls

Pages

Right panel → Pages → right-click a thumbnail or open its page menu

Before you start

Open a document you can edit. In Pages icon Pages, select one page.

Steps

Crop the current page

  1. Right-click the thumbnail and choose Crop icon Crop.
  2. Drag a rectangle over the region to keep. The area outside it is dimmed.
  3. Click Crop above the drawing or press Enter. Esc cancels.

Crop toolbar showing Cancel, Copy to new page, and Crop.

Copy a detail to its own page

  1. Open Crop and drag around the detail.
  2. Choose Copy to new page icon Copy to new page instead of Crop.

The detail opens as a new page after the unchanged original. Existing Deta markups are not copied.

Restore the full page

  1. Open Crop on the cropped page.
  2. Click Remove crop, then Crop or Enter to apply.

Check your result

The page shows the selected region. With Copy to new page, both the original and detail appear in Pages.

Troubleshooting

  • Crop is unavailable: select only one page.
  • Copy to new page is unavailable: drag a region smaller than the whole sheet first.