Problems with cropping PDF in Automator.

I'm trying to create a workflow for a photo booth contraption I plan to set up at an event. 3 photos taken in each session will then be placed by the *New PDF contact sheet* action.
All is well here except that now I need to crop the PDF (which i'm only given the option of '8 1/2 x 11' or 'A4') to 4x6, which is the size of my photo paper. The default Crop Image action crops to the center and was not working for me because the images are up in the top of the page. So instead i'm using the *Propper Cropper* tool as it allows me to Crop to dims and set the XY of where the top left corner of crop is.
*For some reason, it won't crop my PDF files. It will crop jpgs, gifs and pngs. I tried to render PDF page as image but that did not work either.*
I'm really stuck here. it seems like a pretty simple action and yet I can't figure out whats wrong here. Any help is appreciated.
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Automator-Actions---Workflows/Automator-Propper-Cro pper.shtml

I had this problem too. Since my PDFs could not be cropped, I ended up converting my PDF to a JPEG, and crop from there. I don't see how converting an image back to PDF would pose a problem in Automator.

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