Some shipping platforms only provide you with a full page (8.5" x 11") document. 

 

Frequently, they use half of the page for the shipping label and the other half for receipt or packing slip.

 

While there are many ways to split this page into a 4" x 6" label size, here is our favorite method:

 

Using Adobe "Take a Snapshot"

1.Download Adobe Reader if you do not have it already from Adobe website (https://get.adobe.com).

2.Save your label as a PDF file.

3.Open the file in Adobe Reader

4.Rotate the label if needed by going to View -> Rotate View

5.Go to Edit -> Take a Snapshot

6.Click and drag the box over your label

7.Go to File -> Print 

8.If preview looks good, click "Print"

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Note: If you are shipping more than a few labels, you would benefit from using a commercial solution that create 4 x 6 labels in one-click. See this article: How do I generate labels?

 

Official guide from Adobe: Print portion of a PDF page using Acrobat or Reader 

(https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/print-portion-page-acrobat-reader.html)

 

How can I crop multiple pages in the same document at once? 

1. If you are wanting this for Amazon FBA labels, the Phomemo team has put together a free service that can crop box labels into individual labels that can then print directly to Phomemo, 

please visit: https://phomemo.com/pages/label-transformer

 

2. On Adobe Acrobat you are able to crop several / all pages together. 

Please see: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/crop-pdf-pages.html

 3. Briss is a free open-source application available for cropping PDF pages at once. It may take a little while getting used to it but once you are comfortable with it, it is pretty fast:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/

 

4. For Mac: 

There is a third-party company that offers a software for cropping labels

Please download form: https://www.peninsula-group.com

There is a operation tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mos4GNnRZ5c