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1. Click the Rectangular Crop tool .
2. In the display window, drag the mouse pointer over the area that you want to output.
   Do not select an area that includes more than one TIFF element.
3. Release the mouse button.
   A rectangle indicates the area that remains after you confirm the Crop command.
4. If required, perform one or more of these actions:
• To resize the area of the crop, drag one of its sizing handles.
• To move the area of the crop, hold the left mouse button inside the rectangle and drag the pointer to the location you want to crop. 
• To apply the resulting crop and view it, double click the crop area.
• To snap the selected rectangle to the data in the TIFF file and achieve the minimum size that contains all the data in your selection, from the Info palette, click Auto-Fit.
  Note: You can select multiple elements together and then click Auto-Fit to achieve the minimum size that contains all the data in your selection. You can also define a margin around the data and a minimum dot percentage to be included in the auto-fit crop area in Preferences > Layout.

Cropping a TIFF element in the layout with the Polygonal Crop tool

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1. In the layout window, select the TIFF file that you want to crop.
2. From the Info palette, click the Crop tab, and define the following parameters:

   • Crop size: In the Crop size boxes, type the width of the cropped image in the  box, and the height of the cropped image in the  box, and press Enter.

   • Offset: If you want to define offset values for the crop, in the Offset boxes, type the horizontal offset value in the  box, and the vertical offset value in the  box, and press Enter.

   • Relative to: This is the origin of the image and the crop will occur away from the origin of the image. By default, the offset values are calculated from the top left corner of the file. If you want to change the point from where the offset is calculated, select a different option from the Relative to list.

3. To snap the selected crop area to the data in the TIFF file and achieve the minimum size that contains all the data in your selection, from the Info palette, click Auto-Fit.
   Note: You can select multiple elements together and then click Auto-Fit to achieve the minimum size that contains all the data in your selection. You can also define a margin around the data and a minimum dot percentage to be included in the auto-fit crop area in Preferences > Layout. 
4. Click Apply.

Cropping TIFF elements automatically when adding them to layouts

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