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A banner on page 2 of the spec hides important text and we must clean it before tomorrow's design review.
3 ready prompts
Written for the moment this actually comes up.
Execute — do the immediate task
+I have three contracts scanned with inconsistent margins. Crop the odd pages in [FileA.pdf],…
Execute — do the immediate task
+I have three contracts scanned with inconsistent margins. Crop the odd pages in [FileA.pdf], [FileB.pdf], and [FileC.pdf] to remove extra white space while keeping all signatures visible, and save each as a cropped version by [deadline=Tuesday].
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Improve — make it easier to accept
+Receivers will compare these three contracts; mismatched layouts look unprofessional. Uniformly…
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Receivers will compare these three contracts; mismatched layouts look unprofessional. Uniformly crop the scanned margins across the three files so headers, footers, and signature blocks align visually. Note any page where cropping would touch signatures and leave that page unchanged with an [annotation] explaining why.
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Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+The design review depends on the [spec]; if cropping removes figure labels we'll get pushback.…
Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+The design review depends on the [spec]; if cropping removes figure labels we'll get pushback. Check page [page=2] for text and diagram overlap, advise whether to crop the banner or recreate the page, and then either crop safely and output [filename=Spec_Cropped.pdf] with a screenshot of the preserved diagrams or recommend the minimal manual edits required and the estimated [time] for each option.
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Who does this, and with what
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Adobe Acrobat Proalso: Adjust Page Boundariesalso: Batch Crop Multiple Pages
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