Permanent cropping

Hi All,
I just cropped a whole bunch of pages in PDF file. However, after I save the file one can still go back and uncrop. Is there a way of making all of the cropping changes permanent?
Thanks
Starsky

Hi again,
Using the examine document and then deleting the white spaces did not change the documents margins. The crop command still shows the white spaces of the crop even after the examine document command was processed and saved.
I`ll have to learn the redaction command to comment further on that answer.

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