Crop Marks on PDF docs visible in Preview

Hi There,
When I view a .pdf document in Safari, I see the page(s) as I believe the author meant for them to be viewed - but when I ctl-click and open with preview, the resulting file opens and shows all the printers marks - such as registration, colour bars etc etc.
Does anybody else get this?
The 2 issues for me are (1) manually having to crop other peoples work in Preview, and (2) the concern, that when I crop my documents in Acrobat to remove that information, that this is in vain when other folks read my documents in preview.
Cheers
Wynter
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4)  

Hi,
Acrobat 9 and older versions paste images as a stamp/comment which (that poorly functional) Preview cannot see, so you need to "flatten" the page if you want to see a pasted picture in Preview.
(Preview, Mail and QuickLook shares the same rendering library)
You can easily flatten one or several pages in a PDF using this free tools: http://abracadabrapdf.net/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=717

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