Page Cropping / Trimming
I would like to have a feature that allows users to crop or trim pages to remove unnecessary areas and view documents in a cleaner format within GoodNotes.
Currently, only objects such as images can be cropped, but there is no way to crop the actual page area itself. Adding a page cropping feature would greatly improve usability, especially when working with scanned documents or PDFs that include unnecessary margins.
Page Cropping Using the Lasso Tool
(Apply to: Current Page / Selected Pages / All Pages)
Crop current page only
Keep only the area selected with the Lasso Tool and remove everything outside the selection (current page only).
Crop all pages to the same size
When all pages have the same layout and unnecessary margins are identical, keep only the Lasso-selected area and remove the rest, applying the same crop to all pages.
Erase only the Lasso-selected area (current page only)
Remove only the selected area, while preserving all other parts of the page (current page only).
Erase the same selected area across all pages
When the unnecessary area is identical in size and position across pages, remove only the Lasso-selected area while preserving the rest, applied to all pages.
Page Cropping via Page Layout (More Options / “⋯” Menu)
(Apply to: Current Page / Selected Pages / All Pages)
Crop pages by manually adjusting the crop size or by entering precise X and Y values (width/height or margins) in a dedicated input panel.
The crop settings should be applicable to:
Current page only
Selected pages
All pages in the document
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Paula Zandra Mae E. Cantomayor commented
Please add this huhu I need this easy resize feature rather than doing a long work around which is time consuming.
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Lucas Burton commented
When I import an image, pdf, or scan a document the option to be able to crop the whole page to cut off some of the sides.
When scanning a piece of paper there is a lot of space around the outside that I do not want, especially in landscape.
Also to be able to scale up the size of an imported image, pdf, or scanned document so it fits the rest of the notebook, often it is too small especially with pictures and scanned documents.
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Leigh Whatling commented
I currently have to use multiple apps to crop or split PDF pages before then adding them to the app. Would it be possible to add this as a function within GoodNotes?
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Jan J. commented
It would be great if there was a feature so that you could cut a page to the content. This would allow you to cut out unnecessary lines at the end of a page and improve the layout of the notebook.
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Shubh Gaddamwar commented
Ability to crop page - like after scanning a page we get an option to resize page boundaries similarly ability to resize the borders of already imported page
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Trish commented
I use goodnotes for uni, so I can markup lecture slides or readings. I love that it makes both the document text and my handwritten notes searchable. I dont know how anyone studies without it.
It would be great to be add room around the iparent/imported document to write notes into. My current workaround is to reprint anything I want to add space to to a pdf with a larger page size, but this is time consuming and I dont need room on all the pages, and I often need more space one one side than the other depending on where the important points are. This cant be altered after printing so I end up with a mess of inserted blank pages and stars and symbols to tell me where the notes apply in the parent document.
It would be so much easier to just extend the page in one direction or another and put the notes in as needed.It would also be great to be able to crop down pages to only include the parts I need.
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Tina Lei Thompson commented
When I "add page" to a notebook, and then "scan documents", the document is scanned and the margins are good (right on the page edges). But, when that document is imported into a notebook, margins are added and cannot be cropped.
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Daniel Zhou
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goodreader has great page cropping feature, which makes reading pdf very fluent. hope goodnotes can do the same.
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Lisa Marie Masquelier commented
Using elements is fantastic, however, I would like to be able to crop from the lasso tool. Right now, if I place a calendar block and need to change the size, I have to select element, which then auto-selects the lasso tool. To crop an element, I then have to select the image, which brings up the image selector on the page, then click off of that, and then select crop. It adds so many extra steps. Why not just have the crop option from the lasso tool? It would save so many steps!
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Daniel Davidov commented
In the app called Documents, by Readdle, there is a feature for PDF files called Crop Mode, which removes excess white space around a page (if applicable), allowing text to be brought more to the front, closer to filling up the entire screen. It is very functional, and makes reading easier since the texts is expanded. As you can see based on photos, the text becomes significantly bigger. This feature alone makes me have to keep my textbooks in the Documents app, since GoodNotes doesn't have this feature. Would love to see it come to GoodNotes! Thank you for your amazing work thus far!
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Nicole Vincent
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I like to annotate the articles I read with scribbles, notes, sketches, etc.
So when I find an interesting story, rather than reading the online version, I screenshot it on my iPad, and then select the option to save the whole page as one long single-page PDF, rather than just saving the PNG of the screenshotted image.
Ufortunatly, on some web pages this doesn’t capture the whole page, an so the last few paragaphs might be missing.
Here’s what I’d like to be able to do when that happens.
First, take screenshots of the material that’s missing and save these PNGs into the iPad’s photo album.
Then, with the incomplete PDFs open in GoodNotes, I’d like to add more white-space at the bottom of the document — effectively, the reverse of when you crop an article, since I’d be dragging the current crop marks from the bottom further *downwards* to create fresh empty space using the same colour as the colour of the page that I’m extending. (Or maybe to have a dialogue that asks by how much longer or wider I’d like to make the document, and whether I want to add this extra real estate on all four sides, or just on the indicated sides — in the example I’m giving, I’d be adding real estate at the bottom of the page).
Finally, once I have this extra real estate on the page, I could paste on the screenshot images I took of the missing material, to ensure that the whole document is there, and that it is rendered in the original font (which it would be, since they’re screenshots).
I encounter this problem very often, and it would be awesome of GoodNotes had the functionality to expand the size of PDF document pages.
As another user mentioned (and I’ll give their request a thumbs up in a minute), page CROPPING would also be so helpful.
Thanks for listening, for the single product I use most on my iPad (I effectively almost live out of GoodNotes, including live lecture presentations with a connection to an overhead projector, etc). And, naturally to read *all* the articles. :)
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Farhan Omar
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When i scan a book , it is faster and more convenient to scan to pages together and we also get some black spaces because the size of the book doesn’t match the size of the scanner.
I want to be able to crop the pages (get rid of black spaces) and split the ‘ two page’ scanned page in the middle.
This site is doing the task but we have to pay for that
https://www.sejda.com/crop-pdf -
Tom
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Please add a Feature to trim pdfs. I use GoodNotes for my musicsheet liberary. I want to remove the edge, so its bigger and comfortable for reading.
Thanks!!