Cropping PDF's to Trim Lines

I'm having trouble finding a way to crop my pdf's to the trim lines in automator. I have used the Preview Crop to crop images, but that is not working for what I'm trying to accomplish. I have inconsistent sized pdf's that just need to be cropped to one standard size. Would someone be able to help? Thank you!

Do you by chance have Preview turned on in your Windows dialogs? Sometimes this seems to interfere. You can find more detail about this in this discussion:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5517125#5517125

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http://help.adobe.com/livedocs/acrobat_sdk/11/Acrobat11_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/htm l/wwhelp.htm?context=Acrobat11…
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