Acrobat 9-Possible to Crop to TrimBox?

Hello,
I have a feeling this is very easy to do. I am not familiar with any acrobat scripting. Where's the object model viewer? How do you add the script?(I hate this question)
I know I can figure it out with a little research. Any help would be a very appreciated.
Thanks,
Danny

Here's a link to the documentation. You'll want to use the setPageBoxes method of the Doc object, after using getPageBoxes to get the crop rect of the page.
Where you place the code depends on when you want the code to run. You can use the interactive JavaScript console (Ctrl+J) to run code. Just highlight it and press Ctrl+Enter.

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