Can't blank out a portion of a PDF with Preview?

On my old iBook circa 2005 I can eliminate portions of a PDF with Preview, using Annotate, making a box over the area I don't want, coloring it white and voila! Now with my newish MBPr I can only get a white rectangle with a visible border around it. Grr. Is there no way any more to "blank out" areas of a PDF that I want to print and save my printer ink, as well as make the image take up less space on the page?

Solved again. Just use the crop and save as another PDF, serves the same function.

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