"Crop image data to frames" does not

[kender]

I have a large Indesign file with many vector images. Each of the vector images has a lot of data cropped out of the frame. When I export a pdf I have "crop image data to frames" selected. However when I open the resulting pdf in illustrator you can see that it still contains all the vector linework and has only masked the extra information, rather than leaving out the data.

I have created a test file separately, using a different vector image with data cropped out, and used the same preset settings to export a pdf. The pdf resulting from that does have the extra vector data cropped out.

Since I can get two different results with the same preset setting for exporting the pdf I can only conclude it is a difference in how the image is saved, or some setting in the Indesign file.

I have tried saving the troublesome vector graphics as eps and ai files, as old legacy versions, I have tried expanding all the brushstrokes which were in it to outlines and I have tried ungrouping everything in the file. Always the resulting pdf still has not cropped the extra data.

Does anyone have any knowledge of why this could be happening?

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

It's worth noting that an "image" is only a bitmapped pixel-based
thing. Nothing that applies to images will have any effect on vector
artwork.

Aandi Inston

[nickiehuang@gmail.com]

I am having the same problem! Did you ever figure out why this
happened?

Thanks!