Extract assets workflow question

Hi,
We are doing more and more web design these days, we mainly design for Print usually, and we now need to provide image assets to web developers.
I'm trying the Export assets feature in PS CC Fall 2014 and I'm puzzled by the results. I use the canvas size as my "cropped" size of the final image. I have a lot of images with the same size so I was thinking to put them all in the same document (620X414pixel at 72 dpi) as smart object, which have higher resolution. I need to sometimes crop the image to I just scale accordingly to what I need, and since this is a smart object, I can pretty much do as I want without losing any data.
Here's the kicker, if I export assets, the resulting file is NOT cropped to the document size as I expected it to, it's at the right resolution, but Uncropped. SO, I have to put a mask on each and every layer that is going to be exported so it is cropped. Very time consuming when you have about 60 of them. So I tried to put them in a layer group with a mask thinking that would work, but no.
So my question to you guys is how do you do it?
Last time, we did it in InDesign, exported to jpegs and renamed the files from that. I starting to think it's easier that way.
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated!
Jeff L.

This is now possible in Acrobat XI.

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Hi This Is Ironclad,
thisisironclad wrote:
Hello all,
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thisisironclad wrote:
Hello all,
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thisisironclad wrote:
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I would not use this plug-in until you get the OK from the manufacturer.
thisisironclad wrote:
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thisisironclad wrote:
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thisisironclad wrote:
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thisisironclad wrote:
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