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Add illustration to show the various areas of a page. Own work. Rocketship was found in public domain.
==Basics==
[[File:page-boxes.png|400px|thumb|PDF Boxes]] While PostScript (and EPS, that is) knows only one kind of page size, defined by the BoundingBox (or HiResBoundingBox), the size of PDF pages can have different meanings – e.g. the visible page, the printed page, the cropped printed page.Therefore the PDF standard defines a set of "boxes":
{| class=wikitable
! Meaning
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|CropBox MediaBox ||Page size that Size of the physical medium (print sheet); this is visible in a viewer (fallback for the other boxes, minimally required)page format.
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|BleedBox CropBox ||Page size plus bleed that is visible in a viewer (cut spacefallback for the other boxes, minimally required); this includes the bleed box and all marks for the printshop.
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|TrimBox BleedBox ||Size of trimmed Page size plus bleed (cutspace) ; defines the trimmed page, "final" page sizeplus the bleed.
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|MediaBox TrimBox ||Size of the physical medium trimmed (print sheetcut)page, "final" page size; the net result document format.
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|ArtBox ||Size of the page content (artwork); might be used for imposition purposes; typically, it can be used to specify any section of the page.
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