ENGLISH

When you crop a placed PDF in Adobe InDesign that contains live (non-outlined) text, the exported PDF still keeps all text data located outside the cropped frame. As a result, PDF text search can still find and highlight invisible text that is hidden outside the visible cropped area.

This behavior makes little sense from a user perspective: if a PDF element is cropped in InDesign, the expectation is that everything outside the cropped frame should be removed from the exported PDF — or at least excluded from text search and selection.

Currently, InDesign only masks the content visually. The hidden text remains embedded in the exported PDF, even though it is no longer visible. This creates several problems:

• PDF searches return results in invisible areas
• Copy/paste may include hidden text
• Accessibility/readability can become inconsistent
• Sensitive or unwanted text may remain inside the final exported document
• File content does not match the visible layout

This issue especially affects workflows involving imported PDFs containing OCR text or non-vectorized text layers.

Expected behavior:
When exporting a PDF from InDesign, any content outside the cropped frame of a placed PDF should either:

• be truly clipped/destructively removed from the exported PDF structure, or
• at minimum, be excluded from searchable/selectable text content.

At the moment, the crop behaves only as a visual mask, not as an actual content clipping operation.

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FRENCH

Faire en sorte que sur InDesign quand on recadre un PDF (avec du texte non vectorisé) et qu’on exporte ce PDF cela n’affiche plus le texte en dehors de la zone recadree.

Car actuellement quand on recadre ce genre de PDF, et qu’on exporte le PDF, et qu’on fait une recherche de texte sur ce PDF cela recherche et affiche des résultats même dans le texte invisible masqué en dehors du cadre.

Quand on recadre sur InDesign un bloc d’un PDF importé qui contient du texte non vectoriel je ne vois vraiment pas pour quelle bonne raison le PDF continue d’afficher toute la police qui est en dehors de cette zone recadrée, ça n’a aucun sens ni aucune utilité car par définition quand on recadre un bloc, c’est qu’on veut pas ce qu’il y a autour…