When creating a pdf from multiple ai files, is there a way to force Acrobat
to use the art bounding box rather than the page size?

I know that if I use the 'Make crop area' command in Illustrator, Acrobat
will use this but, as I have 200 ai files to get into Acrobat, I'd rather not
go through them all setting the crop area for each.

I know too that I can crop the pages in Acrobat but, apart from being
laborious, this does not reduce the PDF size.

I've played with Acrobat's Document>Crop Pages command but that doesn't seem
to work at all!

So is there a lazy man's solution?

Acrobat Pro 7.0.8
Illustrator 12.0.1

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Michael

mhphillips at gmail dot com